{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = |image_caption = |taxon = Harmsia |authority = K.Schum. |synonyms = ''Aethiocarpa'' {{small|Vollesen}} }} '''''Harmsia''''' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Harmsia'' K.Schum. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:38717-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=14 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
It is native to Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.<ref name="POWO" />
The genus name of ''Harmsia'' is in honour of Hermann Harms (1870–1942), a German taxonomist and botanist.<ref>{{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}}</ref> It was first described and published in H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., Nachtr. Vo.1 on page 240 in 1897.<ref name="POWO" />
Known species, according to Kew:<ref name="POWO" /> *''Harmsia lepidota'' {{small|(Vollesen) M.Jenny}} *''Harmsia sidoides'' {{small|K.Schum.}}
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Category:Dombeyoideae Category:Malvaceae genera Category:Flora of the Afrotropical realm Category:Plants described in 1897 Category:Flora of Somalia Category:Flora of Ethiopia Category:Flora of Kenya