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''Nassauvia'' is a genus of
flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...
s in the tribe
Nassauvieae The Nassauvieae are a tribe of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.Mutisioideae
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within the family
Asteraceae 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 ...
.Tropicos, ''Nassauvia'' Comm. ex Juss.
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Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
and the
Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands (; es, Islas Malvinas, link=no ) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about from Cape Dubouzet ...
. ''Nassauvia'' is said to be chocolate scented.


Species

Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
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Formerly included

Numerous species are now considered more suitable to other genera: ''
Calopappus ''Calopappus'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, containing the single species ''Calopappus acerosus''. It is endemic to central Chile, where it occurs in the Andes The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Moun ...
Triptilion ''Triptilion'' is a genus of South American flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. ; SpeciesNassauvieae Asteraceae genera Flora of South America Taxa named by Philibert Commerson Taxonomy articles created by Polbot