is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae that is endemic to the Kii Peninsula of Honshū, Japan.
Taxonomy First described in 1935 by Japanese botanists Naomasa Shimotomai and , as Chrysanthemum shiwogiku var. kinokuniense, it was elevated to independent species status within the section Ajania in 2004 by Hiroyoshi Ohashi and . The specific epithet relates to the type locality in former Kii Province.
Distribution Chrysanthemum kinokuniense occurs in coastal areas of the Kii Peninsula, in what is now Wakayama Prefecture and Mie Prefecture.
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