Sidneya

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Sidneya
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Viguiera stenolobaS.F.Blake, which is a synonym of Sidneya tenuifolia var. tenuifolia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Sidneya
E.E.Schill. & Panero

Sidneya is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae. [1]

Its native range is southern central USA (in the states of New Mexico and Texas) to Mexico and El Salvador. [1]

The genus name of Sidneya is in honour of Sidney Fay Blake (1892–1959), an American botanist and plant taxonomist. [2] 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. [1] 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 . [3]


Known species

According to Kew: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Sidneya E.E.Schill. & Panero | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  2. 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.
  3. Schilling, Edward E.; Panero, Jose L. (November 2011). "A revised classification of subtribe Helianthinae (Asteraceae: Heliantheae) II. Derived lineages". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 167 (3): 311–331. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2011.01172.x .