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Thespesia
Thespesia is a genus of 13 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.
10 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Indian tulip tree
speciesThespesia populnea
Flor de Maga
speciesThespesia grandiflora
chewing gum tree
speciesThespesia garckeana
Pacific Rosewood
speciesThespesia populneoides
Indian-Tulip
speciesThespesia acutiloba
Thespesia gummiflua
speciesThespesia gummiflua
Thespesia danis
speciesThespesia danis
Thespesia beatensis
speciesThespesia beatensis
Thespesia cubensis
speciesThespesia cubensis
Thespesia mossambicensis
speciesThespesia mossambicensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 67702.