Shafera

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Shafera
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Senecioneae
Genus: Shafera
Greenm.
Species:
S. platyphylla
Binomial name
Shafera platyphylla

Shafera is a monotypic genus of plants in the groundsel tribe within the sunflower family. [1] [2]

The only known species is Shafera platyphylla, which is native to Cuba. [3] [4]

The genus name of Shafera is in honour of John Adolph Shafer (1863–1918), an American botanist. [5] The Latin specific epithet of platyphylla is a compound word, with 'platy-' derived from Greek word (platús) meaning flat and broad, and also '-phylla' meaning leaf. [6] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. (Series 2) page 327 in 1912. [4]

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References

  1. Greenman, Jesse More. 1912. Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, Botanical Series 2(8): 327
  2. Tropicos, Shafera Greenm.
  3. Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  4. 1 2 "Shafera Greenm. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  5. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition](pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN   978-3-946292-26-5 . Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  6. Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN   184533731X.