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

Jeffreya
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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

Species

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On Global Compositae Checklist;[4]

Taxonomy

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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

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  1. ^ Tropicos, search for Jeffreya
  2. ^ Wild, Hiram. 1974. Kirkia 9(2): 295
  3. ^ Tropicos, Jeffreya Wild
  4. ^ a b Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  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.