Ehretia

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]

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

Species

Accepted species and other notable taxa^[1]

• Ehretia acuminata R.Br. – Koda (East Asia, New Guinea, eastern Australia)
• Ehretia alba Retief & A.E.van Wyk
• Ehretia amoena Klotzsch
• Ehretia anacua (Terán & Berland.) I.M.Johnst. – Anacua (Texas in the United States, Mexico)
• Ehretia angolensis Baker
• Ehretia aspera Willd. (synonym Ehretia laevis Roxb.)
• Ehretia asperula Zoll. & Moritzi
• Ehretia australis J.S.Mill.
• Ehretia bakeri Baker
• Ehretia changjiangensis F.W.Xing & Ze X.Li
• Ehretia coerulea Gürke
• Ehretia confinis I.M.Johnst.
• Ehretia cortesia Gottschling
• Ehretia corylifolia C.H.Wright
• Ehretia crebrifolia (Miers) ined.
• Ehretia cymosa Thonn.
• Ehretia decaryi J.S.Mill.
• Ehretia densiflora F.N.Wei & H.Q.Wen
• Ehretia dichotoma Blume
• Ehretia dicksonii Hance
• Ehretia dolichandra R.R.Mill
• Ehretia dunniana H.Lév.
• †Ehretia europaea E.M. Reid
• Ehretia glandulosissima Verdc.
• Ehretia grahamii Randell
• Ehretia hainanensis I.M.Johnst.
• Ehretia janjalle Verdc.
• Ehretia javanica Blume
• Ehretia kaessneri Vaupel
• Ehretia keyensis Warb.
• Ehretia latifolia Loisel.
• Ehretia lengshuikengensis S.S.Ying
• Ehretia longiflora Champ. ex Benth.
• Ehretia macrophylla Wall.
• Ehretia matthewii Kottaim.
• Ehretia meyersii J.S.Mill.
• Ehretia microcalyx Vaupel
• Ehretia microphylla Lam.
• Ehretia mollis (Blanco) Merr.
• Ehretia moluccana Riedl
• Ehretia namibiensis Retief & A.E.van Wyk
• Ehretia obtusifolia Hochst. ex A.DC.
• Ehretia papuana S.Moore
• Ehretia parallela C.B.Clarke
• Ehretia philippinensis A.DC.
• Ehretia phillipsonii J.S.Mill.
• Ehretia pingbianensis Y.L.Liu
• Ehretia pranomiana Rueangs. & Suddee
• Ehretia psilosiphon R.R.Mill
• Ehretia resinosa Hance
• Ehretia retusa (G.Don) Wall. ex A.DC.
• Ehretia rigida (Thunb.) Druce – Deurmekaarbos (Southeastern Africa)
• Ehretia rosea Gürke
• Ehretia saligna R.Br.
• Ehretia seyrigii J.S.Mill.
• Ehretia siamensis Teijsm. & Binn. ex Gagnep. & Courchet
• Ehretia silvana R.R.Mill
• Ehretia takaminei Hatus.
• Ehretia timorensis Decne.
• Ehretia tinifolia L.
• Ehretia trachyphylla C.H.Wright
• Ehretia tsangii I.M.Johnst.
• Ehretia urceolata W.Fitzg.
• Ehretia wallichiana Hook.f. & Thomson ex C.B.Clarke
• Ehretia wightiana Wall. ex G.Don
• Ehretia winitii Craib

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.