Forestiera
{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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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}}
- 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
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External links
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