Thespesia

Thespesia
	Thespesia populnea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malvales
Family:	Malvaceae
Subfamily:	Malvoideae
Tribe:	Gossypieae
Genus:	Thespesia; Sol. ex Corrêa (1807), nom. cons.
Species
	14 species, see text
Synonyms
	Armouria Lewton (1933); Atkinsia R.A.Howard (1949); Bupariti Duhamel (1760); Maga Urb. (1912); Montezuma DC. (1824); Parita Scop. (1777); Pariti Adans. (1763), nom. superfl.; Paritium A.Juss. (1828), orth. var.; Shantzia Lewton (1928); Thespesiopsis Exell & Hillc. (1954); Ulbrichia Urb. (1924);

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.

Selected species

14 species are currently accepted.^[2]

Thespesia acutiloba (Baker f.) Exell & Mendonça – Mozambique and KwaZulu Natal
Thespesia beatensis (Urb.) Fryxell – Beata Island, Dominican Republic^[3]
Thespesia cubensis (Britton & P.Wilson) J.B.Hutch. – Cuba^[4]
Thespesia danis Oliv. – eastern and southern Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, and eastern Tanzania^[5]
Thespesia fissicalyx Borss.Waalk. – eastern and northeastern New Guinea
Thespesia garckeana F.Hoffm. – Nigeria to Sudan and northern South Africa
Thespesia grandiflora DC. - Maga – Puerto Rico
Thespesia gummiflua Capuron – northern Madagascar
Thespesia mossambicensis (Exell & Hillc.) Fryxell – northeastern Mozambique
Thespesia multibracteata Borss.Waalk. – New Guinea
Thespesia patellifera Borss.Waalk. – eastern New Guinea
Thespesia populnea (L.) Sol. ex Corrêa - Portia tree – Pantropical
Thespesia populneoides (Roxb.) Kostel. – eastern coastal Africa, Madagascar, Indian subcontinent, Indochina, Philippines, Java, New Guinea, and northern Australia
Thespesia robusta Borss.Waalk. – southeastern Papua New Guinea