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|accepted_name=Thespesia
|accepted_authority=Solander ex Corrêa
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.
|place=9: 290, plate 25, fig. 1. 1807
|year=1807
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Thespesia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malvaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Thespesia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek thespesios, divine, wondrous, or excellent, alluding to planting in sacred groves and use for carving religious sculpture
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 215, 218
|treatment_page=page 372
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>[shrubs]. <b>Stems</b> erect, glabrous or hairy when young, usually glandular-punctate, not viscid. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules persistent or deciduous, lanceolate or falcate; blade ovate, unlobed [3-lobulate], base deeply cordate [shallowly cordate to ± truncate], margins entire, surfaces glabrate [hairy], with abaxial foliar nectaries. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary solitary flowers, [sometimes aggregated apically]; involucel present, bractlets caducous, 3, distinct. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx not accrescent, not inflated, lobes truncate [to 5-lobed], not ribbed; corolla yellow [white or rose], with [without] maroon spot at base, usually fading pinkish orange; staminal column usually included; ovary 3–5-carpellate, style 3–5-branched; stigmas clavate. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, erect, somewhat inflated, oblate, coriaceous [ligneous], lepidote [glabrous or hairy], indehiscent [dehiscent]. <b>Seeds</b> 3–5 per locule, short-hairy [glabrous]. <b>x</b> = 13.</span><!--

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|distribution=Fla.;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands (Papua New Guinea);Australia;introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;n South America.
|discussion=<p>Species 17 (1 in the flora).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=fosberg1972a
|text=Fosberg, F. R. and M.-H. Sachet. 1972. Thespesia populnea (L.) Solander ex Corrêa and Thespesia populneoides (Roxburgh) Kosteletzky (Malvaceae). Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 7: 1–13.
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name=Thespesia
|author=Paul A. Fryxell†;Steven R. Hill
|authority=Solander ex Corrêa
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Malvaceae
|distribution=Fla.;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands (Papua New Guinea);Australia;introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;n South America.
|introduced=true
|reference=fosberg1972a
|publication title=Ann. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.
|publication year=1807
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_690.xml
|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Thespesia
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