Biology:Jeffreya

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Jeffreya
Jeffreya.jpg
Scientific classification e
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. 

Wikidata ☰ Q5573138 entry