''Panaetia'', a genus in the

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(daisy) family, was first described by

Henri Cassini Count Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini (9 May 1781 – 23 April 1832) was a French botanist and natural history, naturalist, who specialised in the sunflower family (Asteraceae) (then known as family Compositae). He was the youngest of five chi ...

in 1829 It is considered by

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and the Global Compositae Database to be a synonym of ''Podolepis'' Labil,. while

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states it as "doubtful". However, in 2021, the Western Australian Herbarium accepted Jeffery Jeanes new circumscription of the genus, together with two species of ''Panaetia'' as being found in Western Australia: '' Panaetia lessonii'', and '' Panaetia tepperi''. Jeanes distinguished ''Panaetia'' from the genera, ''

Podolepis ''Podolepis'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Gnaphalieae within the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the m ...

'', ''Siemssenia'' and ''Walshia,'' using the following characters: # the outer florets are all tubular; and # the cypselas are minutely tuberculate and lack long finger-like papillae. The genus is named for the stoic philosopher,

Panaetius of Rhodes Panaetius (; grc-gre, Παναίτιος, Panaítios; – ) of Rhodes was an ancient Greek Stoic philosopher. He was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon and Antipater of Tarsus in Athens, before moving to Rome where he did much to introduce Stoic doc ...

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