Hodgsonia

(Hodgsonia)

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Description

Hodgsonia is a small genus of fruit-bearing vines in the family Cucurbitaceae. 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.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Violales
Family:Cucurbitaceae
Genus:Hodgsonia
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