What is "jeffreya"

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