{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{automatic taxobox |image = Hernandia nymphaeifolia.jpg |image_caption = ''Hernandia nymphaeifolia'' |taxon = Hernandia |authority = Plum. ex L. |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = See text |synonyms = * ''Biasolettia'' {{small|J.Presl}} * ''Hazomalamia'' {{small|Capuron}} * ''Hernandezia'' {{small|Hoffmanns.}} * ''Hernandiopsis'' {{small|Meisn.}} * ''Hertelia'' {{small|Neck.}} * ''Valvanthera'' {{small|C.T.White}} |synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo>{{cite web |title=''Hernandia'' Plum. ex L. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:21422-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=20 May 2026}}</ref> }} [[File:Hernandia cordigera MHNT.BOT.2010.6.66.jpg|thumb|''Hernandia cordigera'' - MHNT]]
'''''Hernandia''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Hernandiaceae. It was named after the Spanish botanist Francisco Hernández de Toledo.<ref>Quattrocchi, U. [https://books.google.com/books?id=-37OBQAAQBAJ&pg=PR7 ''Hernandia''.] ''CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology''. CRC Press, 2012. Page 1962.</ref>
==Species== {{As of|2026|May}}, ''Plants of the World Online'' accepts the following species:<ref name = powo/> * ''Hernandia albiflora'' <small>(C.T.White) Kubitzki</small> – northeast Queensland * ''Hernandia beninensis'' <small>Welw. ex Henriq.</small> – São Tomé * ''Hernandia bivalvis'' <small>Benth.</small> – eastern Queensland * ''Hernandia catalpifolia'' <small>Britton & Harris</small> – Jamaica * ''Hernandia cordigera'' <small>Vieill.</small> – New Caledonia * ''Hernandia cubensis'' <small>Griseb.</small> – Cuba * ''Hernandia didymantha'' <small>Donn.Sm.</small> – southern Mexico (Chiapas), Central America, Colombia, and Ecuador * ''Hernandia drakeana'' <small>Nadeaud</small> – Society Islands (Moorea) * ''Hernandia guianensis'' <small>Aubl.</small> – Trinidad, Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil * ''Hernandia hammelii'' <small>D'Arcy</small> – Panama * ''Hernandia jamaicensis'' <small>Britton & Harris</small> – Jamaica * ''Hernandia kunstleri'' <small>King ex K.Heyne</small> * ''Hernandia labyrinthica'' <small>Tuyama</small> – New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Marianas *''Hernandia leucomphala'' <small>(Hoffmanns.) Steud.</small> * ''Hernandia lychnifera'' <small>Grayum & N.Zamora</small> – Ecuador * ''Hernandia mascarenensis'' <small>(Meisn.) Kubitzki</small> – Mauritius and Réunion * ''Hernandia moerenhoutiana'' <small>Guill.</small> – Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Samoan Islands, Society Islands, Tubuai Islands, Niue, and Wallis and Futuna * ''Hernandia nukuhivensis'' <small>F.Br.</small> – Marquesas Islands * ''Hernandia nymphaeifolia'' <small>(C.Presl) Kubitzki</small> – Madagascar, Indian Ocean islands, Sri Lanka, Indochina, Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia (Northern Territory and Queensland), and South Pacific * ''Hernandia obovata'' <small>O.C.Schmidt</small> – Haiti * ''Hernandia olivacea'' <small>Gillespie</small> – Fiji * ''Hernandia ovigera'' <small>L.</small> – Nicobar Islands, Myanmar, Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea, and South Pacific **''Hernandia ovigera'' subsp. ''stokesii'' {{small|(F.Br.) J.Florence}} – Pitcairn Islands, Society Islands, and Tubuai Islands * ''Hernandia papuana'' <small>C.T.White</small> * ''Hernandia rostrata'' <small>Kubitzki</small> – Solomon Islands * ''Hernandia samoensis'' <small>Hochr.</small> * ''Hernandia sonora'' <small>L.</small> – Mexico and the Caribbean islands * ''Hernandia stenura'' <small>Standl.</small> – southern Mexico, Central America, and Colombia * ''Hernandia temarii'' <small>Nadeaud</small> – Society Islands (Tahiti) * ''Hernandia voyronii'' <small>Jum.</small> – Madagascar * ''Hernandia wendtii'' <small>Espejo</small> – central Mexico to Honduras
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==External links== {{Commons category|Hernandia}} * [https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/13560 Taxonomy] * [http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/hernandi.htm Hernandiaceae at the University of Hawaii] * [http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/gateway_family?fam=Hernandiaceae links at CSDL, Texas] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012213237/http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/gateway_family?fam=Hernandiaceae |date=2008-10-12 }} * [http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/1423/1/v32n1-79-94.pdf Vegetation of the Montane Region of Savai'i, W. Arthur Whistler.] * PPP-Index Pflanzerneinkaufsfürer für Europa [http://www.ppp-index.de/L1BYP0c9SGVybmFuZGlhJk1JRD0yNzU2.html?UID=55F35ED1FC73347DCC6EC72458FDC48C033B8FB428BAF2C4]
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Category:Hernandiaceae Category:Plants described in 1753 Category:Botanical taxa named by Carl Linnaeus