''Sidneya'' is a genus of

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 ...

. Its native range is southern central USA (in the states of New Mexico and Texas) to Mexico and

El Salvador El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south b ...

. The genus name of ''Sidneya'' is in honour of

Sidney Fay Blake Sidney Fay Blake (1892–1959) was an American botanist and plant taxonomist, "recognized as one of the world's experts on botanical nomenclature." Biography Blake was born in 1892 in Stoughton, Massachusetts. In 1912, he received a bachelor's d ...

(1892–1959), an American botanist and plant

taxonomist In biology, taxonomy () is the scientific study of naming, defining ( circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped into taxa (singular: taxon) and these groups are given ...

. It was first described and published in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. Vol.167 on page 327 in 2011.

Known species

According to Kew: *'' Sidneya pinnatilobata'' *'' Sidneya tenuifolia''

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q43301090 Asteraceae Asteraceae genera Plants described in 2011 Flora of the South-Central United States Flora of Mexico Flora of El Salvador