Nesomia is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Eupatorieae within the family Asteraceae.[D.J.N.Hind & H.E.Robinson. 2007. Tribe Eupatorieae In: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants vol.VIII. (Joachim W.Kadereit & Charles Jeffrey, volume editors. Klaus Kubitzky, general editor). Springer-Verlag. Berlin, Heidelberg.][ Tropicos, Nesomia B.L. Turner ]
The genus is named in honor of American botanist Guy L. Nesom.[ Turner, Billie Lee. 1991. Phytologia 71(3): 208-211 diagnosis in Latin, description and commentary in English, full-page line drawing of Nesomia chiapensis]
Species
The only known species is Nesomia chiapensis, native to the Chiapas in southern Mexico.[ Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist ][Turner, B. L. 1997. The Comps of Mexico: A systematic account of the family Asteraceae, vol. 1 -- Eupatorieae. Phytologia Memoirs 11: i–iv, 1–272]
