Jeffreya is a genus of African flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.Wild, Hiram. 1974. Kirkia 9(2): 295Tropicos, Jeffreya Wild
Species On Global Compositae Checklist;Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist Jeffreya palustris (O.Hoffm.) Wild - Tanzania, Zambia, Zaire Jeffreya petitiana (Lisowski) Beentje - Burundi
Taxonomy Species in homonymic genus In 1978, CabreraCabrera, Angel Lulio. 1978. Hickenia 1: 125 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
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.
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