Kalimeris
Kalimeris is a genus of plants in the sunflower family.
It was first described in 1825 by the French botanist Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini.
This genus occurs mainly in eastern Asia, but is also naturalised on Hawaii.
They can grow to a height of 1-1.5 m. The foliage is herbaceous. The blue-green leaves vary per species and are smooth textured. They can be long and narrow, round with large teeth or lobed. The flower heads are solitary or in leafy flat-topped inflorescences. The disc florets are yellow, the ray florets are white, pink or purple.
The chromosome base number is x = 9. The genus's closest relatives are found in the Asian members of Aster and Heteropappus.
; Species
