Vesalea

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants in the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae}}

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| image = Vesalea floribunda (7850722958).jpg

| image_caption = Vesalea floribunda

| taxon = Vesalea

| authority = M.Martens & Galeotti (1844)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

| type_species = Vesalea floribunda

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Vesalea is a plant genus in the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae. They are native to Mexico.

The genus was circumscribed by Martin Martens and Henri Guillaume Galeotti in Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles vol.11 (1) on page 242 in 1844.{{cite web |title=Vesalea M.Martens & Galeotti {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:6138-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=2 December 2022 |language=en}}

The genus name of Vesalea is in honour of Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564), who was a Belgian anatomist and physician. He was a professor at the University of Padua (1537–1542) and later became Imperial physician at the court of Emperor Charles V.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}