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

[2][3] On Global Compositae Checklist;[4] Species in homonymic genus In 1978, Cabrera[5] 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: 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 Cucurbitaceae.

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