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]
Ehretia | |
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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 | |
Species | |
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Synonyms | |
Accepted species and other notable taxa[4]
†Ehretia europaea fossil seeds of the Chattian stage, Oligocene, are known from the Oberleichtersbach Formation in the Rhön Mountains, central Germany.[6] 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[7]