''Karelinia'' is a
genus of flowering plants in the
daisy family
The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...
.
The genus is named in honor of
Grigory Karelin (1801-1872), Russian explorer.
;Species
There is only one known species, ''Karelinia caspia'', native to
European Russia
European Russia (russian: Европейская Россия, russian: европейская часть России, label=none) is the western and most populated part of Russia. It is geographically situated in Europe, as opposed to the cou ...
,
Altai,
Kazakhstan,
Uzbekistan,
Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan,
Turkey,
Afghanistan,
Iran,
China
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(
Xinjiang,
Inner Mongolia,
Qinghai,
Gansu
Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province.
The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...
), and
Mongolia.
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References
Monotypic Asteraceae genera
Inuleae
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