Jeffreya Explained

Jeffreya is a genus of African flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.^{[1] [2]}

Species

On Global Compositae Checklist;^[3]

• Jeffreya palustris (O.Hoffm.) Wild - Tanzania, Zambia, Zaire
• Jeffreya petitiana (Lisowski) Beentje - Burundi

Taxonomy

Species in homonymic genusIn 1978, Cabrera^[4] 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^[3]

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.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Wild, Hiram. 1974. Kirkia 9(2): 295
2. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40033276 Tropicos, Jeffreya Wild
3. http://dixon.iplantcollaborative.org/CompositaeWeb/default.aspx?Page=NameDetails&TabNum=0&NameId=1226fdf2-3c74-47b8-b03c-6570611be039 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
4. Cabrera, Angel Lulio. 1978. Hickenia 1: 125
5. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition . Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2018 . 978-3-946292-26-5 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2018 . 1 January 2021.