Ehretia


Ehretia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ehretiaceae. It contains 66 species native to the tropics and subtropics of the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Papuasia, and Australia. The generic name honors German botanical illustrator Georg Dionysius Ehret.

Species

Accepted species and other notable taxa
  • Ehretia acuminata - Koda
  • Ehretia alba
  • Ehretia amoena
  • Ehretia anacua - Anacua
  • Ehretia angolensis
  • Ehretia aspera
  • Ehretia asperula
  • Ehretia australis
  • Ehretia bakeri
  • Ehretia changjiangensis
  • Ehretia coerulea
  • Ehretia confinis
  • Ehretia cortesia
  • Ehretia corylifolia
  • Ehretia crebrifolia
  • Ehretia cymosa
  • Ehretia decaryi
  • Ehretia densiflora
  • Ehretia dichotoma
  • Ehretia dicksonii
  • Ehretia dolichandra
  • Ehretia dunniana
  • Ehretia europaea E.M. Reid
  • Ehretia glandulosissima
  • Ehretia grahamii
  • Ehretia hainanensis
  • Ehretia janjalle
  • Ehretia javanica
  • Ehretia kaessneri
  • Ehretia keyensis
  • Ehretia latifolia
  • Ehretia lengshuikengensis
  • Ehretia longiflora
  • Ehretia macrophylla
  • Ehretia matthewii
  • Ehretia meyersii
  • Ehretia microcalyx
  • Ehretia microphylla
  • Ehretia mollis
  • Ehretia moluccana
  • Ehretia namibiensis
  • Ehretia obtusifolia
  • Ehretia papuana
  • Ehretia parallela
  • Ehretia philippinensis
  • Ehretia phillipsonii
  • Ehretia pingbianensis
  • Ehretia pranomiana
  • Ehretia psilosiphon
  • Ehretia resinosa
  • Ehretia retusa
  • Ehretia rigida - Deurmekaarbos
  • Ehretia rosea
  • Ehretia saligna
  • Ehretia seyrigii
  • Ehretia siamensis
  • Ehretia silvana
  • Ehretia takaminei
  • Ehretia timorensis
  • Ehretia tinifolia
  • Ehretia trachyphylla
  • Ehretia tsangii
  • Ehretia urceolata
  • Ehretia wallichiana
  • Ehretia wightiana
  • ''Ehretia winitii''

    Fossil record

Ehretia europaea fossil seeds of the Chattian stage, Oligocene, are known from the Oberleichtersbach Formation in the Rhön Mountains, central Germany. 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

Taxonomy references