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Jeffreya

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Kingdom
  
Plantae

Tribe
  
Astereae

Rank
  
Genus

Order
  
Asterales

Higher classification
  
Daisy family

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

Species
  1. Jeffreya palustris (O.Hoffm.) Wild - Tanzania, Zambia, Zaire
  2. Jeffreya petitiana (Lisowski) Beentje - Burundi
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 (L.) Cabrera - Neojeffreya decurrens (L.) Cabrera
  • References

    Jeffreya Wikipedia