''Oldfeltia'' is a genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...

s belonging to the family

Asteraceae Asteraceae () is a large family (biology), family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the Order (biology), order Asterales. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchi ...

. It contains only one known species, ''Oldfeltia polyphlebia''. It is native to

Cuba Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the ...

. The genus name of ''Oldfeltia'' is in honour of Karin Oldfelt Hjertonsson (b. 1940), a Swedish artist who collaborated with the author

Bertil Nordenstam Rune Bertil Nordenstam (born 1936) is a Swedish botanist and professor emeritus at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in the Department of Phanerogamic Botany. He has worked with Colchicaceae, Senecioneae and Calenduleae, was the editor of ...

. Hjertonsson was the Swedish ambassador to Cuba for several years. The Latin

specific epithet In Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin gramm ...

of ''polyphlebia'' is a

portmanteau In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed by combining the meanings, and parts of the sounds, of two or more words together.

word, 'poly-' is derived from Greek πολύς (polús) meaning many or much, and '-phlebia' means "veins". Both the genus and species were first described and published in Compositae Newslett. Vol. 38 on pages 66–67 in 2002.

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q6049715, from2=Q15571891 Senecioneae Monotypic Asteraceae genera Endemic flora of Cuba Flora without expected TNC conservation status Taxa named by August Grisebach