Heeria argentea

{{Short description|Species of plant}}

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|image = Heeria argentea 50D 0942.jpg

|image_caption = In Western Cape, South Africa

|status = LC

|status_system = IUCN3.1

|status_ref = {{cite iucn |author1=Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) |author2=IUCN SSC Global Tree Specialist Group |author3=von Staden, L. |name-list-style=amp |title=Heeria argentea |page=e.T149511011A149511013 |year=2019 |access-date=17 April 2024}}

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|genus = Heeria (plant)

|parent_authority = Meisn.

|species = argentea

|authority = (Thunb.) Meisn.

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Genus

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|Anaphrenium |E.Mey. ex Endl.

|Roemeria |Thunb. }}

Species

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|Anaphrenium argenteum |(Thunb.) E.Mey.

|Rhus argentea |(Thunb.) Druce

|Rhus thunbergii |Hook.

|Roemeria argentea |(Thunb.) Thunb.

|Bumelia argentea |(Thunb.) Roem. & Schult.

|Sideroxylon argenteum |Thunb.

|Rhus argyrophylla |C.Presl}}

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Heeria is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Anacardiaceae.{{cite web |title=Heeria Meisn. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1814-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=14 May 2021 |language=en}} The only species is Heeria argentea.

It is native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa.{{cite web |title=Heeria argentea (Thunb.) Meisn. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:69662-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=23 September 2021 |language=en}}

The genus name of Heeria is in honour of Oswald Heer (1809–1883), a Swiss geologist and naturalist.{{cite book | last=Quattrocchi | first=Umberto | title=CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Volume II, D–L | publisher=CRC Press | location=Boca Raton, Florida | year=2000 | isbn=978-0-8493-2676-9}} The Latin specific epithet of argentea refers to silvery.{{cite book | last=Lewis | first=Charlton | title=An Elementary Latin Dictionary | publisher=Oxford University Press | location=Oxford | year=1891 | isbn=9780199102051}}

Heeria argentea was first described and published in Pl. Vasc. Gen. Vol.2 on page 55 in 1837.