Ehretia

Ehretia
Ehretia acuminata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Boraginales
Family:	Boraginaceae
Subfamily:	Ehretioideae
Genus:	Ehretia P.Browne
Type species
Ehretia tinifolia L.
Species
See text
Synonyms
Gaza Terán & Berland. Traxilum Raf.[1]

Ehretia is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae. It contains about 50 species.^[2] The generic name honors German botanical illustrator Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708–1770).^[3]

Selected species

• 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 bakeri Britten
• Ehretia cortesia Gottschling
• Ehretia capensis Meisn. ex C.Krauss
• Ehretia coerulea Gürke
• Ehretia cymosa Thonn.
• Ehretia dicksonii Hance
• Ehretia glandulosissima Verdc.
• Ehretia janjalle Verdc.
• Ehretia kaessneri Vaupel
• Ehretia laevis Roxb.
• Ehretia microcalyx Vaupel
• Ehretia namibiensis Retief & A.E.van Wyk
• Ehretia obtusifolia Hochst. ex A.DC.
• Ehretia rigida (Thunb.) Druce – Deurmekaarbos (Southeastern Africa)
• Ehretia rosea Gürke
• Ehretia saligna
• Ehretia scrobiculata Hiern
• Ehretia tinifolia L.
• Ehretia trachyphylla C.H.Wright
• Ehretia uhehensis Gürke
• Ehretia violacea Kunth

Formerly placed here

• Carmona retusa (Vahl) Masam. (as E. microphylla Lam.)^[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.

References

1. "Genus: Ehretia P. Browne". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2006-04-02. 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. "GRIN Species Records of Ehretia". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2010-08-21.

External links

• 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.