Jeffreya


Jeffreya is a genus of African flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.

Species

On Global Compositae Checklist;Jeffreya palustris Wild - Tanzania, Zambia, Democratic [Republic of the Congo|Zaire]Jeffreya petitiana Beentje - Burundi

Taxonomy

Species in homonymic genus
In 1978, Cabrera 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 Cabrera - Neojeffreya decurrens Cabrera
The genus name of Jeffreya is in honour of Charles [Jeffrey (botanist)|Charles Jeffrey], an English botanist at Kew Gardens with a focus on Chinese flora and also specialist in Asteraceae and Cucurbitaceae.