Genus of flowering plants in the borage family Boraginaceae
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
References
- ^ a b c "Ehretia P.Browne". Plants of the World Online (POWO). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
- ^ Bennett, Masha (2003). Pulmonarias and the Borage Family. Timber Press. ISBN 978-0-88192-589-0.
- ^ The floral change in the tertiary of the Rhön mountains (Germany) by Dieter Hans Mai - Acta Paleobotanica 47(1): 135-143, 2007.
- ^ 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
External links
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Data related to Ehretia at Wikispecies- Browne, M.D., Patrick; Ehret, Georg Dionysius (March 1756). "The Broad-leaf'd Cherry tree". The civil and natural history of Jamaica :in three parts. In three dissertations. The whole illustrated with fifty copper-plates : in which the most curious productions are represented of the natural size, and delineated immediately from the objects. London: Gray's Inn: T. Osborne and J. Shipton. p. 168. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
Data related to Ehretia at Wikispecies