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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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| image = Faxonia pusilla.png
| image_caption = The illustration of ''Faxonia pusilla'' from the type description.
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| genus = Faxonia
| parent_authority = Brandegee
| species = pusilla
| authority = Brandegee
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'''''Faxonia''''' is a monotypic [[genus]] of flowering plants in the family [[Asteraceae]].<ref name="x">Brandegee, Townshend Stith. “[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/568041#page/99/mode/1up Additions to the Flora of the Cape Region of Baja California II.]” ''Zoë'' 4, no. 4 (March 12, 1894): 403-404</ref> It contains the single species '''''Faxonia pusilla''''', [[endemic]] to the [[Mexico|Mexican]] State of [[Baja California Sur]].<ref name="u">[https://archive.today/20141125212618/http://dixon.iplantcollaborative.org/CompositaeWeb/default.aspx?Page=NameDetails&TabNum=0&NameId=fd0a6dab-2935-4b35-b020-7d7f1c2bb6d3 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist ]</ref><ref>CONABIO. 2009. Catálogo taxonómico de especies de México. 1. In Capital Nat. México. CONABIO, Mexico City.</ref> This genus is only known from the singular [[Type (biology)|type specimen]] collected by [[Townshend Stith Brandegee]] in the [[Sierra de la Laguna]] in 1893, and is possibly [[Extinction|extinct]].<ref name="x" /><ref name="BajaChecklist">{{Cite journal |last1=Rebman |first1=Jon P. |last2=Gibson |first2=Judy |last3=Rich |first3=Karen |date=15 November 2016 |title=Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Baja California, Mexico |url=http://sdplantatlas.org/pdffiles/BajaChecklist2016.pdf |journal=Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History |publisher=[[San Diego Natural History Museum]] |volume=45 |pages=6, 58 |via=San Diego Plant Atlas}}</ref>
The genus is named for botanical illustrator [[Charles Edward Faxon]] of [[Arnold Arboretum]].<ref name=x/>
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[[Category:Millerieae]]
[[Category:Monotypic Asteraceae genera]]
[[Category:Flora of Baja California Sur]]
[[Category:Endemic flora of Mexico]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Townshend Stith Brandegee]]
[[Category:Species known from a single specimen]]
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