Helietta

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Helietta

| authority = Tul.

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text.

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Helietta is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family, Rutaceae.{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?5487 |title=Helietta Tul. |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2008-03-21 |accessdate=2009-11-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606022118/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?5487 |archive-date=2011-06-06 |url-status=dead }} Members of the genus are commonly known as barettas, barretas, or barrettas.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yjc5ZYWtkNAC |title=Elsevier's Dictionary of Trees: With Names in Latin, English, French, Spanish and Other Languages |first=Miroslav M. |last=Grandtner |volume=1 |publisher=Elsevier |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-444-51784-5 |page=416}} The generic name honors French physician Louis Théodore Hélie (1802–1867).{{cite book |first=Charles Sprague |last=Sargent |title=Manual of the Trees of North America (Exclusive of Mexico) |volume=2 |edition=2 |publisher=Courier Dover Publications |isbn=978-0-486-20278-5 |year=1965 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/manualoftreesofn02sarg/page/638 638]–9 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/manualoftreesofn02sarg }}{{cite journal |title=Un élogie de M. Héliet par le M. docteur Joüom |year=1868 |journal=Revue de Bretagne et de Vendée |series=3 |volume=4 |pages=409–411}}actes d'état civil, Archives municipales de Nantes.