''Sidneya'' is a genus of

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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 ...

. Its native range is southern central USA (in the states of New Mexico and Texas) to Mexico and

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. The genus name of ''Sidneya'' is in honour of

Sidney Fay Blake Sidney Fay Blake (1892–1959) was an American botanist and plant taxonomist, "recognized as one of the world's experts on botanical nomenclature." Biography Blake was born in 1892 in Stoughton, Massachusetts. In 1912, he received a bachelor's d ...

(1892–1959), an American botanist and plant

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. It was first described and published in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. Vol.167 on page 327 in 2011 by botanists Edward E. Schilling and

José Luis Panero José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced very differently in each of the two languages: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced ...

. They had described four new genera, '' Dendroviguiera'', '' Gonzalezia'', '' Heiseria'' and ''Sidneya'', which are all composed of species that were formerly included in the genus '' Viguiera''.

Known species

According to Kew: *'' Sidneya pinnatilobata'' *'' Sidneya tenuifolia''

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q43301090 Asteraceae Asteraceae genera Plants described in 2011 Flora of the South-Central United States Flora of Mexico Flora of El Salvador