Jeffreya
Appearance
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
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Jeffreya is a genus of African flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.[2][3]
Species
[edit]On Global Compositae Checklist;[4]
- Jeffreya palustris (O.Hoffm.) Wild - Tanzania, Zambia, Zaire
- Jeffreya petitiana (Lisowski) Beentje - Burundi
Taxonomy
[edit]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
[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.