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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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| image = Hampea trilobata in flower.jpg
| image_caption = ''Hampea trilobata'' in flower
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| taxon = Hampea
| authority = [[Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal|Schltdl.]]<ref name=GRIN>{{GRIN genus | name = ''Hampea'' | id = 5354 | access-date = 25 April 2017}}</ref>
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
}}

'''''Hampea''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Malvaceae]]. They are trees native to Mexico, Central America, and Colombia. There are about 21 species.<ref>Jones, R. W., Fryxell, P. A., & Baro, D. M. (1997). [http://www.ejournal.unam.mx/bot/068-01/BOT68103.pdf Phylogenetic analysis of the genus ''Hampea'' (Malvales: Malvaceae: Gossypieae).] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150616060131/http://www.ejournal.unam.mx/bot/068-01/BOT68103.pdf |date=2015-06-16 }} ''Anales del Instituto de Biología. Serie Botánica'', 68(1), 21-42.</ref>

Species include:<ref>[http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Malvaceae/Hampea/ ''Hampea''.] The Plant List.</ref>
* ''[[Hampea appendiculata]]''
* ''[[Hampea breedlovei]]''
* ''[[Hampea dukei]]''
* ''[[Hampea micrantha]]''
* ''[[Hampea montebellensis]]''
* ''[[Hampea reynae]]'' &ndash; Majagua
* ''[[Hampea sphaerocarpa]]''
* ''[[Hampea thespesioides]]''
* ''[[Hampea trilobata]]''

==Ecology==

[[Lepidoptera]] whose [[caterpillar]]s feed on ''Hampea'' include ''[[Macrosoma conifera]]'' and one or two [[taxa]] of the [[two-barred flasher]] (''Astraptes fulgerator'') [[cryptic species complex]].<ref>{{smallcaps|Brower, Andrew V.Z.}} (2006): Problems with DNA barcodes for species delimitation: ‘ten species’ of ''Astraptes fulgerator'' reassessed (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). ''Systematics and Biodiversity'' '''4'''(2): 127–132. <small>{{doi|10.1017/S147720000500191X}}</small> [http://www.bolinfonet.org/pdf/Brower_2006SYSTBIODIVERSITY%5B1%5D.pdf PDF fulltext] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217031406/http://www.bolinfonet.org/pdf/Brower_2006SYSTBIODIVERSITY%5B1%5D.pdf |date=2008-12-17 }}</ref><ref>{{smallcaps|[[Paul D. N. Hebert|Hébert, Paul D.N.]]; Penton, Erin H.; Burns, John M.; Janzen, Daniel H. & Hallwachs, Winnie}} (2004): Ten species in one: DNA barcoding reveals cryptic species in the semitropical skipper butterfly ''Astraptes fulgerator''. ''[[PNAS]]'' '''101'''(41): 14812-14817. <small>{{doi|10.1073/pnas.0406166101}}</small> [http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/101/41/14812.pdf PDF fulltext] [http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/0406166101/DC1 Supporting Appendices] these were 
recorded on ''[[Hampea appendiculata|H. appendiculata]]''.</ref>

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[[Category:Malvaceae genera]]
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