Ehretia

Ehretia
Ehretia acuminata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Boraginales
Family: Boraginaceae
Subfamily: Ehretioideae
Genus: Ehretia
P.Browne
Type species
Ehretia tinifolia
Species

see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Bruxanelia Dennst., not validly publ.
  • Carmona Cav.
  • Cortesia Cav.
  • Desmophyla Raf.
  • Gaza Terán & Berland.
  • Lithothamnus Zipp. ex Span.
  • Traxilum Raf.

Ehretia is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae. It contains 66 species native to the tropics and subtropics of the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Papuasia, and Australia.[1] The generic name honors German botanical illustrator Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708–1770).[2]

Species

Accepted species and other notable taxa[1]

Fossil record

†Ehretia europaea fossil seeds of the Chattian stage, Oligocene, are known from the Oberleichtersbach Formation in the Rhön Mountains, central Germany.[3] Endocarp fossils have been described from the Late Miocene locality of Pont-de-Gail in France and from the southern border of the Po Plain in northern Italy in two sites dated to the Zanclean and in three sites of supposed Zanclean age[4]

Taxonomy references

  • "Index Nominum Genericorum -- Ehretia". International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
  • UniProt. "Ehretia". Retrieved 2009-03-31.
  • "Ehretia". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
  • "Ehretia P.Browne". African flowering plants database. Pretoria: South African National Biodiversity Institute, the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and Tela Botanica. Retrieved 2009-03-31.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Ehretia P.Browne". Plants of the World Online (POWO). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  2. ^ Bennett, Masha (2003). Pulmonarias and the Borage Family. Timber Press. ISBN 978-0-88192-589-0.
  3. ^ The floral change in the tertiary of the Rhön mountains (Germany) by Dieter Hans Mai - Acta Paleobotanica 47(1): 135-143, 2007.
  4. ^ Pliocene and Early Pleistocene carpological records of terrestrial plants from the southern border of the Po Plain (northern Italy) by Edoardo Martinetto, Giovanni Monegato, Andrea Irace and Elena Vassio - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 218(1) November 2014 by DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2014.10.007
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