Perymenium is a genus of flowering plant in the Asteraceae, a family in the Asterales order with the most accepted species.
Perymenium
Schrad. Genus: Perymenium is a genus of South American and Mesoamerican plants in the sunflower tribe within the daisy family. Asteraceae Family: Order: Asterales The family includes over 32,000 currently accepted species, in over 1,900 genera (list) in 13 subfamilies. In terms of numbers of species, the Asteraceae are rivaled only by the Orchidaceae. Which is the larger family is unclear, because of the uncertainty about how many extant species each family includes. 
