Sheilanthera

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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| image_caption = A herbarium collection of Sheilanthera pubens from Auckland Museum

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| genus = Sheilanthera

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| species = pubens

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Sheilanthera is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rutaceae. The only known species is Sheilanthera pubens.{{cite web |title=Sheilanthera I.Williams {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:893100-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=25 May 2021 |language=en}}

It is native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa.

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.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}} The Latin specific epithet of pubens means fuzzy or pubescent, derived from pubesco.{{cite book | last=Harrison |first=Lorraine | title=RHS Latin for Gardeners | year=2012 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley | location=United Kingdom | isbn=978-1845337315 }} It was first described and published in J. S. African Bot. Vol.47 on page 761 in 1981.