Goetzea

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Goetzea elegans fruit.jpg

|image_caption = Goetzea elegans

|taxon = Goetzea

|authority = Wydler

}}

Goetzea is a genus of plant in the family Solanaceae. It was originally placed by H. Wydler in the family Ebenaceae and named for his teacher the Rev. Johann August Ephraim Goetze.Linnaea 5: 423, t. 8. 1830

It was for about half a century included in the now defunct family Goetzeaceae Miers ex Airy Shaw {{cite journal |title=A New Genus of the Tribe Sophoreae (Leguminosae) from Western Africa and Borneo |first=R.K. |last=Brummitt |journal=Kew Bull |volume=18 |issue=3 |year=1964 |pages=375–386 |doi=10.2307/4108328 |jstor=4108328}}

Note

This is not to be confused with Goetzea, Rchb., a genus belonging to the

Fabaceae (the bean family).

Species

Notes

  • {{cite journal |last1=Santiago-Valentin |first1=E. |last2=Olmstead |first2=R.G. |title=Phylogenetics of the Antillean Goetzeoideae (Solanaceae) and Their Relationships within the Solanaceae based on Chloroplast and ITS DNA Sequence Data |journal=Systematic Botany |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=452–460 |year=2003 |doi=10.1043/0363-6445-28.2.452 |doi-broken-date=12 July 2025 |jstor=3094013

|url=http://depts.washington.edu/phylo/OlmsteadPubs/Goetzea.SystBot.pdf }}

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