Neohemsleya

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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| status = VU

| status_system = IUCN2.3

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Lovett, J. |author2=Clarke, G.P. |date=1998 |title=Neohemsleya usambarensis |volume=1998 |page=e.T35782A9951975 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T35782A9951975.en |access-date=17 November 2021}}

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| genus = Neohemsleya

| parent_authority = T.D.Penn.

| species = usambarensis

| authority = T.D.Penn.

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Neohemsleya is a genus of plant in family Sapotaceae described as a genus in 1991.Pennington, Terence Dale. 1991. The Genera of Sapotaceae 175-177 (published by Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew)[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/50040433 Tropicos, Neohemsleya T.D.Penn.]

There is only one known species, Neohemsleya usambarensis, endemic to the Usambara Mountains of Tanzania.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=133775 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Pennington, D. (2001 publ. 2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Sapotaceae: 1-364. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

The species is listed as vulnerable.

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