| Ehretia | |
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| Ehretia acuminata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Boraginales |
| Family: | Boraginaceae |
| Subfamily: | Ehretioideae |
| Genus: | Ehretia P.Browne |
| Type species | |
| Ehretia tinifolia | |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms | |
Ehretia is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae. It contains about 50 species.[2] The generic name honors German botanical illustrator Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708–1770).[3]
Accepted species and other notable taxa[4]
†Ehretia europaea fossil seeds of the Chattian stage, Oligocene, are known from the Oberleichtersbach Formation in the Rhön Mountains, central Germany.[6] Endocarp fossils have been described from the Late Miocene locality of Pont-de-Gail in France and from the southern border of the Po Plain in northern Italy in two sites dated to the Zanclean and in three sites of supposed Zanclean age[7]
