Jessea

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants in the daisy family Asteraceae}}

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|image = Jessea cooperi.jpg

|image_caption = Jessea cooperi

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|taxon = Jessea

|authority = H.Rob & Cuatrec (1994)

|type_species = Jessea multivenia

|type_species_authority = (Benth. ex Benth.) H.Rob & Cuatrec

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Jessea is a genus of Central American plants in the tribe Senecioneae within the sunflower family, closely related to Senecio.{{cite journal| last =Robinson | first =Harold | author-link =Harold E. Robinson|author2=José Catrecasas | title =Jessea and Talamancalia, Two New Genera of the Senecioneae (Asteraceae) from Costa Rica and Panama | journal =Novon| volume =4| issue =1 | pages =48–52 | publisher =Missouri Botanical Garden Press | date =Spring 1994| doi =10.2307/3391700| jstor =3391700| author2-link =José Catrecasas | url =https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/20907 }}[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40038183 Tropicos, Jessea H. Rob. & Cuatrec.]Nordenstam, Rune Bertil. 1996. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 118(2): 148–150, f. 1.

The genus is named in honor of US botanist Jesse More Greenman (1867-1951), formerly of the Missouri Botanical Garden.{{cite web|url=http://plants.jstor.org/person/bm000003169|title=Greenman, Jesse More (1867-1951)|publisher=JSTOR|access-date=November 28, 2014}}

; Species

• Jessea cooperi (Greenm.) H.Rob. & Cuatrec. – Panama, Costa Rica
• Jessea gunillae B.Nord. – Costa Rica
• Jessea megaphylla (Greenm.) H.Rob. & Cuatrec. – Panama, Costa Rica
• Jessea multivenia (Benth. ex Benth.) H.Rob. & Cuatrec. – Costa Rica