{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = |image_caption = |taxon = Hemsleya |authority = Cogn. ex F.B.Forbes & Hemsl. }}
'''''Hemsleya''''' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=Hemsleya Cogn. ex F.B.Forbes & Hemsl. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:13304-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=16 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Grin">{{cite web |title=Genus Hemsleya Cogn. ex F. B. Forbes & Hemsl. |url=https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomygenus?id=5542 |website=npgsweb.ars-grin.gov |access-date=25 September 2021}}</ref>
Its native range is Eastern Himalayas to southern China and Papuasia. It is native to the countries of Assam (in India), Bismarck Archipelago (island group, part of Papua New Guinea), China, East Himalayas, Maluku Islands, New Guinea, Thailand and Vietnam.<ref name="POWO" />
The genus name of ''Hemsleya'' is in honour of William Hemsley (1843–1924), an English 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 J. Linn. Soc., Bot. Vol.23 on page 490 in 1888.<ref name="POWO" />
==Known species== According to Kew:<ref name="POWO" />
{{Div col}} *''Hemsleya amabilis'' {{small|Diels}} *''Hemsleya carnosiflora'' {{small|C.Y.Wu & Z.L.Chen}} *''Hemsleya chengyihana'' {{small|D.Z.Li}} *''Hemsleya chinensis'' {{small|Cogn. ex F.B.Forbes & Hemsl.}} *''Hemsleya cirromitrata'' {{small|(W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes) H.Schaef. & S.S.Renner}} *''Hemsleya delavayi'' {{small|(Gagnep.) C.Jeffrey ex C.Y.Wu & C.L.Chen}} *''Hemsleya dipteriga'' {{small|Kuang & A.M.Lu}} *''Hemsleya dolichocarpa'' {{small|W.J.Chang}} *''Hemsleya dulongjiangensis'' {{small|C.Y.Wu}} *''Hemsleya ellipsoidea'' {{small|L.T.Shen & W.J.Chang}} *''Hemsleya emeiensis'' {{small|L.T.Shen & W.J.Chang}} *''Hemsleya endecaphylla'' {{small|C.Y.Wu}} *''Hemsleya gigantha'' {{small|W.J.Chang}} *''Hemsleya graciliflora'' {{small|(Harms) Cogn.}} *''Hemsleya kunmingensis'' {{small|H.T.Li & D.Z.Li}} *''Hemsleya lijiangensis'' {{small|A.M.Lu ex C.Y.Wu & Z.L.Chen}} *''Hemsleya macrocarpa'' {{small|(Cogn.) C.Y.Wu ex C.Jeffrey}} *''Hemsleya macrosperma'' {{small|C.Y.Wu}} *''Hemsleya mitrata'' {{small|C.Y.Wu & Z.L.Chen}} *''Hemsleya panacis-scandens'' {{small|C.Y.Wu & Z.L.Chen}} *''Hemsleya panlongqi'' {{small|A.M.Lu & W.J.Chang}} *''Hemsleya peekelii'' {{small|(W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes) H.Schaef. & S.S.Renner}} *''Hemsleya pengxianensis'' {{small|W.J.Chang}} *''Hemsleya sphaerocarpa'' {{small|Kuang & A.M.Lu}} *''Hemsleya turbinata'' {{small|C.Y.Wu}} *''Hemsleya zhejiangensis'' {{small|C.Z.Zheng}} {{Div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Other sources== * Li, D. Z. 1993. Systematics and evolution of Hemsleya (Cucurbitaceae). Yunnan Science & Technology Press. 1–126. Note: accepts * Schaefer, H. & S. S. Renner. 2011. Phylogenetic relationships in the order Cucurbitales and a new classification of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae). Taxon 60:122-138. Note: accepts * Schaefer, H. et al. 2009. Gourds afloat: a dated phylogeny reveals an Asian origin of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae) and numerous oversea dispersal events. Proc. Roy. Soc. Biol. Sci. Ser. B 276:847. Note: should be included in Gomphogyne
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Category:Cucurbitaceae Category:Cucurbitaceae genera Category:Plants described in 1888 Category:Flora of Eastern Asia Category:Taxa named by William Hemsley (botanist) Category:Taxa named by Francis Blackwell Forbes