Biology:Forestiera
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Forestiera is a genus of flowering plants in the olive family, Oleaceae. Members of the genus are often called swampprivets.[1][2] Most are shrubs.
Species
There are about 20 species, native to Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, Ecuador and the southern half of the United States.[3][4] Phylogenetics indicate that Forestiera is sister to Hesperelaea, an extinct North American lineage.[5]
The following species are recognised in the genus Forestiera:[6]
- Forestiera acuminata (Michx.) Poir. – eastern swampprivet - central and southeastern United States
- Forestiera angustifolia Torr. – narrowleaf forestiera, Texas forestiera, Texas swampprivet - Texas, northeastern Mexico
- Forestiera cartaginensis Donn. Central America, southern Mexico
- Forestiera corollata Cornejo & Wallander Guatemala
- Forestiera durangensis Standl. - Durango
- Forestiera ecuadorensis Cornejo & Bonifaz - Ecuador
- Forestiera eggersiana Krug & Urban – inkbush - Puerto Rico, Leeward Islands
- Forestiera godfreyi L.C. Anders. – Godfrey's swampprivet - Florida, Georgia, South Carolina
- Forestiera isabelae Hammel & Cornejo - Costa Rica
- Forestiera ligustrina (Michx.) Poir. – upland swamp-privet - Texas, southeastern United States
- Forestiera macrocarpa Brandegee - Baja California Sur
- Forestiera phillyreoides (Benth.) Torr. in W.H.Emory - central and southern Mexico
- Forestiera pubescens Nutt. – downy forestiera, stretchberry - southwestern United States, northern Mexico
- Forestiera racemosa S.Watson - Nuevo León
- Forestiera reticulata Torr. – netleaf swampprivet - western Texas
- Forestiera rhamnifolia Griseb. – caca ravet - Central America, West Indies, southern Mexico, Isla Socorro
- Forestiera rotundifolia (Brandegee) Standl.
- Forestiera segregata Krug & Urban – Florida swampprivet - Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, much of West Indies including Puerto Rico, Bahamas, Cayman Islands
- Forestiera selleana Urb. & Ekman - Hispaniola
- Forestiera shrevei Standl. – desert olive - Arizona
- Forestiera tomentosa S.Watson - central and southern Mexico
- Forestiera veracruzana Cast.-Campos & Pal.-Wass.
References
- ↑ "Forestiera Poir.". ITIS Standard Reports. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=32951. Retrieved 2010-02-24.
- ↑ Forestiera. USDA PLANTS.
- ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Forestiera pubescens. The Jepson eFlora 2013.
- ↑ Zedane, L.; Hong-Wa, C.; Murienne, J.; Jeziorski, C.; Baldwin, B.G.; Besnard, G. (2016). "Museomics illuminate the history of an extinct, paleoendemic plant lineage (Hesperelaea, Oleaceae) known from an 1875 collection from Guadalupe Island, Mexico". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 117 (1): 44–57. doi:10.1111/bij.12509. ISSN 0024-4066. https://cloudfront.escholarship.org/dist/prd/content/qt1615g4rh/qt1615g4rh.pdf.
- ↑ "Forestiera Poir. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331613-2.
External links
Data related to Forestiera at Wikispecies
Wikidata ☰ Q355080 entry
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