Ajania is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family, described as a genus in 1955.Poljakov, Petr Petrovich. 1955. Botanicheskie Materialy Gerbariia Botanicheskogo Instituta imeni V. L. Komarova Akademii Nauk SSSR 17: 419Tropicos, Ajania Poljakov The genus is native to temperate Asia, primarily Russia and China.Flora of China Vol. 20-21 Page 656 亚菊属 ya ju shu Ajania Poljakov, Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 17: 419. 1955 It is named after the Russian port city Ayan in the Khabarovsk Krai region of the Russian Far East, on the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk.Genaust, Helmut (1976). Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen
Species , Kew's Plants of the World Online accepts 43 species in the genus Ajania:
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