Jeffreya

Jeffreya is a genus of African flowering plants in the daisy family.[3][4]

Jeffreya
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Asterids
Order:
Asterales
Family:
Asteraceae
Tribe:
Astereae[1]
Genus:
Jeffreya

Wild 1974 not Cabrera 1978[2]
Type species
Jeffreya palustris
(O.Hoffm.) Wild

Species

On Global Compositae Checklist;[1]

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:

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. Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  2. Tropicos, search for Jeffreya
  3. Wild, Hiram. 1974. Kirkia 9(2): 295
  4. Tropicos, Jeffreya Wild
  5. Cabrera, Angel Lulio. 1978. Hickenia 1: 125
  6. 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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