Shafera

<i>Shafera</i>

Shafera

Species of flowering plant

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

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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]

References

  1. [1]
    Greenman, Jesse More. 1912. Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, Botanical Series 2(8): 327
  2. [2]
    Tropicos, Shafera Greenm.
  3. [3]
    Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist
  4. [4]
    "Shafera Greenm. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  5. [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. [6]
    Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 184533731X.


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