title: Diastatea
text: # Diastatea
  
  Diastatea is a genus of plants native to Latin America, mostly in Mexico and Central America but with one species extending southward along the Andes to Argentina.
  
  * Diastatea costaricensis McVaugh - Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica
  * Diastatea expansa McVaugh - central Mexico
  * Diastatea ghiesbreghtii (Kuntze) E.Wimm - southwestern Mexico
  * Diastatea micrantha (Kunth) McVaugh - widespread from central Mexico to the Jujuy region of northern Argentina
  * Diastatea tenera (A.Gray) McVaugh - southern Mexico and Guatemala
  * Diastatea virgata Scheidw. - southern Mexico
  