Ehretia

Ehretia
Ehretia acuminata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	(unplaced)
Family:	Boraginaceae
Genus:	Ehretia P.Browne
Type species
Ehretia tinifolia L.
Species
See text

Ehretia is a genus member of the borage family containing about 50 species.

Selected species

• Ehretia acuminata R. Br.
• Ehretia alba Retief & A.E.van Wyk
• Ehretia amoena Klotzsch
• Ehretia anacua (Terán & Berland.) I. M. Johnst.
• 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
• Ehretia rosea Gürke
• Ehretia scrobiculata Hiern
• Ehretia tinifolia L.
• Ehretia trachyphylla C.H.Wright
• Ehretia uhehensis Gürke
• Ehretia violacea Kunth

Taxonomy references

• "Index Nominum Genericorum -- Ehretia" (html). 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.
• Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) (2006-04-02). "Genus: Ehretia P.Browne" (HTML). Taxonomy for Plants. USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved 2009-03-31.

External links

Media related to Ehretia at Wikimedia Commons

• Browne, M.D., Patrick; Ehret, Georg Dionysius (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 (html). London: Gray's Inn: T. Osborne and J. Shipton. p. 168. Retrieved 2009-03-31. {{cite book}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)