{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants in the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Vesalea floribunda (7850722958).jpg | image_caption = ''Vesalea floribunda'' | taxon = Vesalea | authority = M.Martens & Galeotti (1844) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text | type_species = ''Vesalea floribunda'' | synonyms = }} '''''Vesalea''''' is a plant genus in the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae. They are native to Mexico.
The genus was circumscribed by Martin Martens and Henri Guillaume Galeotti in Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles vol.11 (1) on page 242 in 1844.<ref name="Powo">{{cite web |title=''Vesalea'' M.Martens & Galeotti {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:6138-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=2 December 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
The genus name of ''Vesalea'' is in honour of Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564), who was a Belgian anatomist and physician. He was a professor at the University of Padua (1537–1542) and later became Imperial physician at the court of Emperor Charles V.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}</ref>
==Species== As accepted by ''Plants of the World Online'' (POWO);<ref name="Powo" /> {{linked species list |Vesalea coriacea |(Hemsl.) T.Kim & B.Sun ex Landrein |Vesalea floribunda |M.Martens & Galeotti |Vesalea grandifolia |(Villarreal) Hua Feng Wang & Landrein |Vesalea mexicana |(Villarreal) Hua Feng Wang & Landrein |Vesalea occidentalis |(Villarreal) H.F.Wang & Landrein |Vesalea subcoriacea |(Villarreal) Landrein }}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Commons category-inline|Vesalea|''Vesalea''}} * {{Wikispecies-inline|Vesalea|''Vesalea''}}
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Category:Caprifoliaceae Category:Endemic flora of Mexico Category:Caprifoliaceae genera Category:Taxa named by Martin Martens Category:Taxa named by Henri Guillaume Galeotti