Damnxanthodium is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, containing the single species Damnxanthodium calvum.Tropicos, Damnxanthodium Strother Strother, John Lance. 1987. Systematic Botany 12(1): 41 It is native to northern Mexico.Living National Treasures, Checklist of Endemic Vascular Plant Genera, Mexico
The plant was separated from the genus Perymenium. It was given the new genus name Damnxanthodium because it is difficult to distinguish from similar asters.Strother, J. L. (1987). Damnxanthodium (Compositae: Heliantheae), a new genus from Mexico. Systematic Botany 12(1), 41-43.Etymology: Interjections. Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature.
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