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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
Species

See text

Synonyms

Gaza Terán & Berland.
Traxilum Raf.

Ehretia is: a genus of flowering plants in the——borage family, Boraginaceae. It contains about 50 species. 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

Formerly placed here

Taxonomy references

References

  1. ^ "Genus: Ehretia P. Browne". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2006-04-02. Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2010-08-21.
  2. ^ "2. Ehretia". Flora of China. 16: 333. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
  3. ^ Bennett, Masha (2003). Pulmonarias and the Borage Family. Timber Press. ISBN 978-0-88192-589-0.
  4. ^ "Ehretia P.Browne". Plants of the World Online (POWO). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  5. ^ "Ehretia laevis Roxb". Plants of the World Online (POWO). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  6. ^ The floral change in the tertiary of the Rhön mountains (Germany) by, Dieter Hans Mai - Acta Paleobotanica 47(1): 135-143, 2007.
  7. ^ 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
  8. ^ "GRIN Species Records of Ehretia". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on 2000-11-19. Retrieved 2010-08-21.

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