Acritopappus

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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| image_caption = Acritopappus species from Brazil

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| taxon = Acritopappus

| authority = R.M.King & H.Rob.

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Acritopappus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae described as a genus in 1972.{{cite journal | last1 = King | first1 = Robert Merrill | last2 = Robinson | first2 = Harold Ernest | year = 1972 | title = Studies in the eupatorieae (asteraceae) CIX | url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13127292#page/417/mode/1up | journal = Phytologia | volume = 24 | page = 401 }}[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40031248 Tropicos, Acritopappus R.M. King & H. Rob.]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.

The entire genus is endemic to Brazil.{{cite journal | last1 = Bautista | first1 = Hortensia P. | last2 = Ortiz | first2 = Santiago | last3 = Rodríguez-Oubiña | first3 = Juan | year = 2011 | title = A New Species of the Brazilian Endemic Genus Acritopappus (Compositae, Eupatorieae) from Minas Gerais | journal = Systematic Botany | volume = 36 | issue = 1| pages = 227–230 | doi = 10.1600/036364411X553298 | s2cid = 83581131 }}