Jeffreya

Jeffreya
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Astereae[1]
Genus: Jeffreya
Wild 1974 not Cabrera 1978[2]
Type species
Jeffreya palustris
(O.Hoffm.) Wild

Jeffreya is a genus of African flowering plants in the daisy family.[3][4]

Species[1]
  1. Jeffreya palustris (O.Hoffm.) Wild - Tanzania, Zambia, Zaire
  2. Jeffreya petitiana (Lisowski) Beentje - Burundi
species in homonymic genus[1]

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:

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