Boraginaceae
Ehretia

Ehretia amoena Klotzsch

First published in W.C.H.Peters, Naturw. Reise Mossambique 6(Bot., 1): 248 (1861)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is SE. Kenya to S. Africa. It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • Govaerts, R. (2001). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS E-F: 1-50919.
  • Verdcourt, B. (1991). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Boraginaceae: 1-124.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Bak. & Wright in Flora of Tropical Africa 4(2): 24 (1905).
  • Brenan in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 9: 4 (1954).
  • C.H. Wright in Fl. Cap. 4(2): 5 (1904).
  • Dale & Greenway, Kenya Trees and Shrubs p. 72 (1961).
  • Gürke in Die Pflanzenwelt Ost-Afrikas und der Nachbargebiete, Theile C: 335 (1895).
  • Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot.: 248, t. 41 (1861).
  • Martins in Flora Zambesiaca 7(4): 76 (1990).
  • Palgrave, Trees S.Afr.: 802 (1977).
  • Vollesen in Opera Bot. 59: 75 (1980).

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jan 1, 2009 Heath, A.; Heath, R. [1388] Botswana K000450151 No
Jan 1, 1987 Sim [6018] Mozambique K000418615 Isotype Yes
Mar 18, 1982 Goetze, W. [128] Tanzania K000418625 Unknown Type Material Yes
Stuhlmann [7422] Tanzania K000418624 Unknown Type Material Yes
Stuhlmann [7454] K000418622 Unknown Type Material Yes
Stuhlmann [7658] Tanzania K000418623 Unknown Type Material Yes
Hansen, O.J. [3476] Botswana K000282801 Yes
Peters [s.n.] Mozambique K000418616 Unknown Type Material Yes
Smith, P.A. [2140] Botswana K000282803 No
Peter, A. [52353] Tanzania Ehretia stuhlmannii K001560600 Yes

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
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  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
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  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Plants and People Africa

    • Common Names from Plants and People Africa http://www.plantsandpeopleafrica.com/
    • © Plants and People Africa http://www.plantsandpeopleafrica.com http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/