Sidneya | |
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Viguiera stenoloba S.F.Blake, which is a synonym of Sidneya tenuifolia var. tenuifolia | |
Scientific classification | |
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]