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