Sheilanthera

Sheilanthera is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rutaceae. The only known species is Sheilanthera pubens.^[1]

Sheilanthera
A herbarium collection of Sheilanthera pubens from Auckland Museum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Sapindales
Family:	Rutaceae
Subfamily:	Zanthoxyloideae
Genus:	Sheilanthera I.Williams
Species:	S. pubens
Binomial name
Sheilanthera pubens I.Williams

It is native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa.^[1]

The genus name of Sheilanthera is in honour of Sheila Williams, wife and colleague of Ion James Muirhead Williams (1912–2001), a South African botanist and author of the genus.^[2] The Latin specific epithet of pubens means fuzzy or pubescent, derived from pubesco.^[3] It was first described and published in J. S. African Bot. Vol.47 on page 761 in 1981.^[1]