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Genus of flowering plants in the borage family Boraginaceae

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
L.
Species

see text

Synonyms
  • 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. The generic name honors German botanical illustrator Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708–1770).

Species

Accepted species and other notable taxa

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

References

  1. ^ "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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Taxon identifiers
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