Hodgsonia
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Hodgsonia is a small genus of fruit-bearing vines in the family Cucurbitaceae.
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Hodgsonia | |
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Hodgsonia heteroclita fruit | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Cucurbitales |
Family: | Cucurbitaceae |
Subfamily: | Cucurbitoideae |
Tribe: | Sicyoeae |
Genus: | Hodgsonia Hook.f. & Thomson |
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Hodgsonia was named for Brian Houghton Hodgson in 1853 by British botanists Joseph Dalton Hooker and Thomas Thomson, who examined the plant under Hodgson's hospitality in the Himalaya.