Jeffreya

Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Jeffreya

Scientific classification
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

Jeffreya is a genus of African flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.[2][3]

## Species

On Global Compositae Checklist;[4]

* Jeffreya palustris (O.Hoffm.) Wild \- Tanzania, Zambia, Zaire
* Jeffreya petitiana (Lisowski) Beentje \- Burundi

## Taxonomy

Species 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

1. ↑ Tropicos, search for Jeffreya
2. ↑ Wild, Hiram. 1974. Kirkia 9(2): 295
3. ↑ Tropicos, Jeffreya Wild
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
5. ↑ Cabrera, Angel Lulio. 1978. Hickenia 1: 125
6. ↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018) (in German) (pdf). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition. Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018. Retrieved 1 January 2021.

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