Forestiera

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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| taxon = Forestiera

| authority = Poir.{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?4728 |title=Forestiera Poir. |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2007-10-05 |accessdate=2010-02-22}}

| synonyms_ref = {{Cite web |title=Forestiera Poir. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331613-2 |access-date=2025-02-04 |website=Plants of the World Online |language=en}}

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  • Adelia P.Browne
  • Bigelovia Sm.
  • Borya Willd.
  • Carpoxis Raf.
  • Geisarina Raf.
  • Nudilus Raf.
  • Piptolepis Benth.

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Forestiera is a genus of flowering plants in the olive family, Oleaceae. Members of the genus are often called swampprivets.{{cite web |url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=32951 |title=Forestiera Poir. |work=ITIS Standard Reports |publisher=Integrated Taxonomic Information System |accessdate=2010-02-24}}[http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=FORES Forestiera.] USDA PLANTS. 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.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=369345 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families][http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_IJM.pl?tid=25982 Forestiera pubescens.] The Jepson eFlora 2013. Phylogenetics indicate that Forestiera is sister to Hesperelaea, an extinct North American lineage.{{cite journal |last1=Zedane |first1=L. |last2=Hong-Wa |first2=C. |last3=Murienne |first3=J. |last4=Jeziorski |first4=C. |last5=Baldwin |first5=B.G. |last6=Besnard |first6=G. |title=Museomics illuminate the history of an extinct, paleoendemic plant lineage (Hesperelaea, Oleaceae) known from an 1875 collection from Guadalupe Island, Mexico |journal=Biological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=117 |issue=1 |year=2016 |pages=44–57 |issn=0024-4066 |doi=10.1111/bij.12509|url=https://cloudfront.escholarship.org/dist/prd/content/qt1615g4rh/qt1615g4rh.pdf |doi-access=free }}

The following species are recognised in the genus Forestiera:{{Cite web |title=Forestiera Poir. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331613-2 |access-date=2025-02-04 |website=Plants of the World Online |language=en}}

References

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