flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...
s belonging to the family
Asteraceae
The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...
. It contains only one known species, ''Oldfeltia polyphlebia''.
It is native to
Cuba
Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...
.
The genus name of ''Oldfeltia'' is in honour of Karin Oldfelt Hjertonsson (b. 1940), a Swedish artist who collaborated with the author
Bertil Nordenstam
Rune Bertil Nordenstam (born 1936) is a Swedish botanist and professor emeritus at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in the Department of Phanerogamic Botany.
He has worked with Colchicaceae, Senecioneae
and Calenduleae,
was the editor of ''C ...
. Hjertonsson was the Swedish ambassador to Cuba for several years. The Latin
specific epithet
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
of ''polyphlebia'' is a
portmanteau
A portmanteau word, or portmanteau (, ) is a blend of words Both the genus and species were first described and published in Compositae Newslett. Vol. 38 on pages 66–67 in 2002.