{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{for|the microsporidian fungus genus|Hessea (microsporidian)}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Pancrace Bessa 08 Amaryllis crispal.jpg |image_caption = ''Hessea cinnamomea'' |taxon = Hessea |authority=Herb. 1837, conserved name not P. J. Bergius ex D. F. L. von Schlechtendal 1826 (syn of ''Carpolyza'' in Amaryllidaceae) |synonyms_ref=<ref name=y>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=277949 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref> |type_species=''Hessea stellaris'' |type_species_authority = (Jacq.) Herb.<ref name = "Tropicos">Missouri Botanical Garden. (n.d.-f). ''Hessea'' Herb. Tropicos. Retrieved January 21, 2025, from https://www.tropicos.org/name/40024795</ref> |synonyms= * ''Imhofia'' <small>Herb. 1821, illegitimate homonym not Heister 1755</small> * ''Periphanes'' <small>Salisb.</small> * ''Kamiesbergia'' <small>Snijman</small> * ''Dewinterella'' <small>D.Müll.-Doblies & U.Müll.-Doblies</small> }}
'''''Hessea''''' is a genus of bulb-forming plants in the Amaryllis family native to Namibia and South Africa.<ref name=y/><ref>Goldblatt, P. & J. C. Manning. 2000. Cape Plants: A Conspectus of the Cape Flora of South Africa. Strelitzia 9.</ref><ref>Gibbs Russell, G. E., W. G. M. Welman, E. Retief, K. L. Immelman, G. Germishuizen, B. J. Pienaar, M. Van Wyk & A. Nicholas. 1987. List of species of southern African plants. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa 2(1–2): 1–152(pt. 1), 1–270(pt. 2).</ref><ref>[http://redlist.sanbi.org/search.php?sppsearch=Hessea+ South African National Biodiversity Institute, Red List of South African Plants, ''Hessea'']</ref> The genus name commemorates C. H. F. Hesse (1772–1832), who resided in Cape Town from 1800 to 1817.<ref name="cp">{{cite web|last1=Plug|first1=C.|title=Hesse, Reverend Christian Heinrich Friedrich (plant collection) |website=s2a3 | url=http://www.s2a3.org.za/bio/Biograph_final.php?serial=1281 | publisher=Suider-Afrika Genootskap vir die Bevordering van die Wetenskap | accessdate=5 January 2017}}</ref>
==Description== The stigma is trifid.<ref name = "Herbert, 1837" />
==Taxonomy== It was published by William Herbert in 1837<ref name = "Tropicos" /><ref name = "Herbert, 1837">Herbert, William. (1837). Amaryllidaceae: preceded by an attempt to arrange the monocotyledonous orders, and followed by a treatise on cross-bred vegetables, and supplement (p. 289). J. Ridgway and Sons. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50397107</ref> with ''Hessea stellaris'' {{small|(Jacq.) Herb.}} as the type species.<ref name = "Tropicos" /> ===Species=== Species<ref name=y/> {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| # ''Hessea breviflora'' <small>Herb.</small> # ''Hessea cinnamomea'' <small>(L'Hér.) T.Durand & Schinz</small> # ''Hessea incana'' <small>Snijman</small> # ''Hessea mathewsii'' <small>W.F.Barker </small> # ''Hessea monticola'' <small>Snijman </small> # ''Hessea pilosula'' <small>D.Müll.-Doblies & U.Müll.-Doblies </small> # ''Hessea pulcherrima'' <small>(D.Müll.-Doblies & U.Müll.-Doblies) Snijman </small> # ''Hessea pusilla'' <small>Snijman </small> # ''Hessea speciosa'' <small>Snijman</small> # ''Hessea stellaris'' <small>(Jacq.) Herb.</small> # ''Hessea stenosiphon'' <small>(Snijman) D.Müll.-Doblies & U.Müll.-Doblies</small> # ''Hessea tenuipedicellata'' <small>Snijman</small> # ''Hessea undosa'' <small>Snijman</small> }}
===Formerly included=== The following species were formerly included:<ref name=y/> Several species have been coined using the name ''Hessea'', which refer to species now considered better suited to genera ''Namaquanula'', ''Nerine'' or ''Strumaria'': {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| * ''Hessea bruce-bayeri - Namaquanula bruce-bayeri'' * ''Hessea burchelliana - Strumaria gemmata'' * ''Hessea chaplinii - Strumaria chaplinii'' * ''Hessea filifolia - Strumaria tenella'' * ''Hessea gemmata - Strumaria gemmata'' * ''Hessea karooica - Strumaria karooica'' * ''Hessea leipoldtii - Strumaria leipoldtii'' * ''Hessea rehmannii - Nerine rehmannii'' * ''Hessea spiralis - Strumaria pygmaea'' * ''Hessea spiralis - Strumaria spiralis'' * ''Hessea tenella - Strumaria tenella'' * ''Hessea unguiculata - Strumaria unguiculata'' * ''Hessea vaginata - Strumaria truncata'' }}
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Flora of Southern Africa Category:Amaryllidoideae Category:Amaryllidaceae genera Category:Taxa named by William Herbert (botanist)