# Hemsleya

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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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|taxon = Hemsleya
|authority = [Cogn.](/source/Alfred_Cogniaux) ex [F.B.Forbes](/source/Francis_Blackwell_Forbes) & [Hemsl.](/source/William_Hemsley_(botanist))
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'''''Hemsleya''''' is a genus of [flowering plant](/source/flowering_plant)s belonging to the family [Cucurbitaceae](/source/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](/source/Eastern_Himalayas) to southern China and [Papuasia](/source/Papuasia). It is native to the countries of [Assam](/source/Assam) (in India), [Bismarck Archipelago](/source/Bismarck_Archipelago) (island group, part of [Papua New Guinea](/source/Papua_New_Guinea)), China, [East Himalayas](/source/East_Himalayas), [Maluku Islands](/source/Maluku_Islands), New Guinea, Thailand and Vietnam.<ref name="POWO" />

The genus name of ''Hemsleya'' is in honour of [William Hemsley](/source/William_Hemsley_(botanist)) (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.](/source/J._Linn._Soc.), Bot. Vol.23 on page 490 in 1888.<ref name="POWO" />

==Known species==
According to Kew:<ref name="POWO" />

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*''[Hemsleya amabilis](/source/Hemsleya_amabilis)'' {{small|Diels}}
*''[Hemsleya carnosiflora](/source/Hemsleya_carnosiflora)'' {{small|C.Y.Wu & Z.L.Chen}}
*''[Hemsleya chengyihana](/source/Hemsleya_chengyihana)'' {{small|D.Z.Li}}
*''[Hemsleya chinensis](/source/Hemsleya_chinensis)'' {{small|Cogn. ex F.B.Forbes & Hemsl.}}
*''[Hemsleya cirromitrata](/source/Hemsleya_cirromitrata)'' {{small|(W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes) H.Schaef. & S.S.Renner}}
*''[Hemsleya delavayi](/source/Hemsleya_delavayi)'' {{small|(Gagnep.) C.Jeffrey ex C.Y.Wu & C.L.Chen}}
*''[Hemsleya dipteriga](/source/Hemsleya_dipteriga)'' {{small|Kuang & A.M.Lu}}
*''[Hemsleya dolichocarpa](/source/Hemsleya_dolichocarpa)'' {{small|W.J.Chang}}
*''[Hemsleya dulongjiangensis](/source/Hemsleya_dulongjiangensis)'' {{small|C.Y.Wu}}
*''[Hemsleya ellipsoidea](/source/Hemsleya_ellipsoidea)'' {{small|L.T.Shen & W.J.Chang}}
*''[Hemsleya emeiensis](/source/Hemsleya_emeiensis)'' {{small|L.T.Shen & W.J.Chang}}
*''[Hemsleya endecaphylla](/source/Hemsleya_endecaphylla)'' {{small|C.Y.Wu}}
*''[Hemsleya gigantha](/source/Hemsleya_gigantha)'' {{small|W.J.Chang}}
*''[Hemsleya graciliflora](/source/Hemsleya_graciliflora)'' {{small|(Harms) Cogn.}}
*''[Hemsleya kunmingensis](/source/Hemsleya_kunmingensis)'' {{small|H.T.Li & D.Z.Li}}
*''[Hemsleya lijiangensis](/source/Hemsleya_lijiangensis)'' {{small|A.M.Lu ex C.Y.Wu & Z.L.Chen}}
*''[Hemsleya macrocarpa](/source/Hemsleya_macrocarpa)'' {{small|(Cogn.) C.Y.Wu ex C.Jeffrey}}
*''[Hemsleya macrosperma](/source/Hemsleya_macrosperma)'' {{small|C.Y.Wu}}
*''[Hemsleya mitrata](/source/Hemsleya_mitrata)'' {{small|C.Y.Wu & Z.L.Chen}}
*''[Hemsleya panacis-scandens](/source/Hemsleya_panacis-scandens)'' {{small|C.Y.Wu & Z.L.Chen}}
*''[Hemsleya panlongqi](/source/Hemsleya_panlongqi)'' {{small|A.M.Lu & W.J.Chang}}
*''[Hemsleya peekelii](/source/Hemsleya_peekelii)'' {{small|(W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes) H.Schaef. & S.S.Renner}}
*''[Hemsleya pengxianensis](/source/Hemsleya_pengxianensis)'' {{small|W.J.Chang}}
*''[Hemsleya sphaerocarpa](/source/Hemsleya_sphaerocarpa)'' {{small|Kuang & A.M.Lu}}
*''[Hemsleya turbinata](/source/Hemsleya_turbinata)'' {{small|C.Y.Wu}}
*''[Hemsleya zhejiangensis](/source/Hemsleya_zhejiangensis)'' {{small|C.Z.Zheng}}
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==References==
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==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

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