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The First Lemurian Clothing Taxonomy

Index Vestimentorum Lemurii → Taxa
Hierarchy: Kewoidea > Plesikewidae > Florankewia

Florankewia

Lemuria, 2026

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Florankewia is a genus of off-shoulder dresses, created by the sewist Kate Eva, in the family Plesikewidae. Florankewia combines components from three patterns; the sleeve from the off-shoulder Kew dress with straps (Kewidae), bodice from Behelaflora (By Hand London (BHL) Flora dress), and the skirt from Behelanna (BHL Anna dress).

Note: Behelanna has not been taxonomized yet and the BHL Anna dress is subject to future reclassification.

So far, two species of Florankewia exist. F. libera, In early 2019, Anna Bond, the owner of Rifle Paper Co., in the Liberty department store in London (hence the specific epithet libera). Bond gifted Eva some fabric from a collection that was to be released later that year, and Eva used this gifted fabric to create F. libera. She published a blog post about it in May 2019.

In September 2019, Eva made another similar dress, based more closely on the BHL Flora (Behelaflora), F. valentina, as described in another blog post. This species’ placement is further unknown, as Eva wrote that she “settled on a simple circle skirt” for the dress, to remove the need for pattern matching work and due to the “lovely” drape.

Lemuria described the species on February 5, 2026, originally incertae sedis in Bilourida. On March 9, 2026, he placed the genus under the family Plesikewidae on phylogenetic and phenetic grounds. Florankewia is not eligible for Behelafloridae, as its class, Helistola, synapomorphically requires the lack of a sleeve worn lateral to the arm, leaving Kewoidea as the last option. Kewoidea is part of the order Biligabotonia, which synapomorphically requires a ventral medial button row, however, Lemuria waived this requirement. The Florankewia are an example of a rampant process occuring in fashion roughly analogous to biological horizontal gene transfer.

Species

As defined in “A taxonomy of Nina Lee’s Kew and Kewbello” - lh:L78.1098/lict2026.0005; doi:10.5281/zenodo.19242200.