{{Short description|Family of shrubs and trees}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Starr 070124-3910 Thespesia populnea.jpg |image_caption = ''Thespesia populnea'' |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Thespesia |authority = Sol. ex Corrêa (1807), nom. cons.<ref name=GRIN>{{GRIN genus | name = ''Thespesia'' | id = 12072 | accessdate = 30 April 2017}}</ref> |synonyms = *''Armouria'' <small>Lewton (1933)</small> *''Atkinsia'' <small>R.A.Howard (1949)</small> *''Bupariti'' {{small|Duhamel (1760)}} *''Maga'' <small>Urb. (1912)</small> *''Montezuma'' <small>DC. (1824)</small> *''Parita'' {{small|Scop. (1777)}} *''Pariti'' {{small|Adans. (1763), nom. superfl.}} *''Paritium'' {{small|A.Juss. (1828), orth. var.}} *''Shantzia'' <small>Lewton (1928)</small> *''Thespesiopsis'' <small>Exell & Hillc. (1954)</small> *''Ulbrichia'' <small>Urb. (1924)</small> |synonyms_ref = <ref name=powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:332010-2 ''Thespesia'' Sol. ex Corrêa]. ''Plants of the World Online''. Retrieved 19 June 2023.</ref> |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = 14 species, see text }}
'''''Thespesia''''' is a genus of 14 flowering shrubs and trees in the ''Hibiscus'' family, Malvaceae, although within the family they are more closely related to cotton plants (''Gossypium''). The genus is distributed from the South Pacific through Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean.
==Species== 14 species are currently accepted.<ref name = powo/> *''Thespesia acutiloba'' <small>(Baker f.) Exell & Mendonça</small> – Mozambique and KwaZulu Natal *''Thespesia beatensis'' <small>(Urb.) Fryxell</small> – Beata Island, Dominican Republic<ref>{{GRIN | ''Thespesia beatensis'' | 105698 | accessdate = 2009-04-04}}</ref> *''Thespesia cubensis'' <small>(Britton & P.Wilson) J.B.Hutch.</small> – Cuba<ref>{{GRIN | ''Thespesia cubensis'' | 105699 | accessdate = 2009-04-04}}</ref> *''Thespesia danis'' <small>Oliv.</small> – eastern and southern Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, and eastern Tanzania<ref>{{GRIN | ''Thespesia danis'' | 36521 | accessdate = 2009-04-04}}</ref> *''Thespesia fissicalyx'' <small>Borss.Waalk.</small> – eastern and northeastern New Guinea *''Thespesia garckeana'' <small>F.Hoffm.</small> – Nigeria to Sudan and northern South Africa *''Thespesia grandiflora'' <small>DC.</small> - Maga – Puerto Rico *''Thespesia gummiflua'' <small>Capuron</small> – northern Madagascar *''Thespesia mossambicensis'' <small>(Exell & Hillc.) Fryxell</small> – northeastern Mozambique *''Thespesia multibracteata'' <small>Borss.Waalk.</small> – New Guinea *''Thespesia patellifera'' <small>Borss.Waalk.</small> – eastern New Guinea *''Thespesia populnea'' <small>(L.) Sol. ex Corrêa</small> - Portia tree – Pantropical *''Thespesia populneoides'' <small>(Roxb.) Kostel.</small> – eastern coastal Africa, Madagascar, Indian subcontinent, Indochina, Philippines, Java, New Guinea, and northern Australia *''Thespesia robusta'' {{small|Borss.Waalk.}} – southeastern Papua New Guinea
==References== {{Reflist|30em}}
==External links== *{{Commons category-inline|Thespesia|''Thespesia''}} * [http://www.hibiscus.org/species/tpopulnea.php Thespesia populnea] at Australian native hibiscus and hibiscus like species. *{{Wikispecies-inline}}
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Category:Thespesia Category:Malvaceae genera
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