Ehretia
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.Selected species
- Ehretia acuminata R.Br. - Koda
- Ehretia alba Retief & A.E.van Wyk
- Ehretia amoena Klotzsch
- Ehretia anacua I.M.Johnst. - Anacua
- 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 europaea E.M. Reid
- 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 Druce - Deurmekaarbos
- Ehretia rosea Gürke
- Ehretia saligna
- Ehretia scrobiculata Hiern
- Ehretia tinifolia L.
- Ehretia trachyphylla C.H.Wright
- Ehretia uhehensis Gürke
- Ehretia violacea Kunth
†Ehretia europaea fossil seeds of the Chattian stage, Oligocene, are known from the Oberleichtersbach Formation in the Rhön Mountains, cental 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 ageFormerly placed here
