Jeffreya is a genus of African flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.[2][3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Subfamily: | Asteroideae |
| Tribe: | Astereae |
| Subtribe: | Homochrominae |
| Genus: | Jeffreya Wild 1974 not Cabrera 1978[1] |
| Type species | |
| Jeffreya palustris (O.Hoffm.) Wild
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Species
editOn Global Compositae Checklist;[4]
- Jeffreya palustris (O.Hoffm.) Wild - Tanzania, Zambia, Zaire
- Jeffreya petitiana (Lisowski) Beentje - Burundi
Taxonomy
editSpecies in homonymic genus In 1978, Cabrera[5] used the name Jeffreya to refer to a plant from Madagascar, rather different from the plant to which Wild had already applied the name four years earlier. This necessitated a renaming of Cabrera's species:
- Jeffreya decurrens (L.) Cabrera - Neojeffreya decurrens (L.) Cabrera[4]
The genus name of Jeffreya is in honour of Charles Jeffrey (b. 1934), an English botanist at Kew Gardens with a focus on Chinese flora and also specialist in Asteraceae and Cucurbitaceae.[6]
References
edit- ^ Tropicos, search for Jeffreya
- ^ Wild, Hiram. 1974. Kirkia 9(2): 295
- ^ Tropicos, Jeffreya Wild
- ^ a b Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
- ^ Cabrera, Angel Lulio. 1978. Hickenia 1: 125
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
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