Jeffreya is a genus of African flowering plants in the daisy family. Species 1. \n* Jeffreya palustris (O.Hoffm.) Wild - Tanzania, Zambia, Zaire 2. \n* Jeffreya petitiana (Lisowski) Beentje - Burundispecies in homonymic genus In 1978, Cabrera used the name Jeffreya to refer to a plant from Madagascar, rather different from the plant to which Wild had already applied the name four years earlier. This necessitated a renaming of Cabrera's species: \n* Jeffreya decurrens (L.) Cabrera - Neojeffreya decurrens (L.) Cabrera