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 (1708–1770).
Species Accepted species and other notable taxa
Ehretia acuminata – Koda (East Asia, New Guinea, eastern Australia) Ehretia alba Ehretia amoena Ehretia anacua – Anacua (Texas in the United States, Mexico) Ehretia angolensis Ehretia aspera (synonym Ehretia laevis Roxb.) 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 (Southeastern Africa) 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.The floral change in the tertiary of the Rhön mountains (Germany) by Dieter Hans Mai - Acta Paleobotanica 47(1): 135-143, 2007. 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 agePliocene 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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