''Jeffreya'' is a

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n flowering plants in the family

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Species

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/ref> * '' Jeffreya palustris'' (O.Hoffm.) Wild -

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* '' Jeffreya petitiana'' (Lisowski) Beentje -

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Taxonomy

Species in homonymic genus In 1978, Cabrera used the name ''Jeffreya'' to refer to a plant from

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, 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

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