Arytera Explained

Arytera is a genus of about twenty–eight species known to science, of trees and shrubs and constituting part of the plant family Sapindaceae. They grow naturally in New Guinea, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Australia, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga; and the most widespread species and type species A. littoralis grows throughout Malesia and across Southeast Asia, from NE. India, southern China, Borneo, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines to as far east as New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

The eleven Australian species may have the common name coogera and they grow naturally in the rainforests of eastern Australia and the Northern Territory.

Formerly included here were three species now in the genus Mischarytera.

Naming and classification

European science formally named and described this genus and the type species in 1847, authored by botanist Carl Ludwig Blume.

In 1879 botanist Ludwig A. T. Radlkofer published formal scientific descriptions of numerous species new to European science.

In 1993 botanist Hubert Turner formally described 8 species new to science found growing naturally in New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and north eastern Australia. In 1994 his treatment of the genus in Flora Malesiana was published.

Species

This listing was sourced from the Australian Plant Name Index and Australian Plant Census, the Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants information system, Flora Malesiana, Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest, the Census of Vascular Plants of Papua New Guinea, the Checklist of the vascular indigenous Flora of New Caledonia, Rainforest trees of Samoa, Flora Vitiensis (Fiji), the Flora of Tonga, the Flora of New South Wales, and the Flora of Australia.

• Arytera arcuata – New Caledonia endemic
• Arytera bifoliata – Tonga
• Arytera bifoliolata – New Guinea, NT, Qld, Australia
• Arytera brachyphylla – New Guinea
• Arytera brackenridgei – Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, Samoa, New Guinea
• Arytera chartacea – New Caledonia endemic
• Arytera collina – New Caledonia endemic

• Arytera densiflora – New Guinea
• Arytera dictyoneura – Qld, Australia
• Arytera distylis – NSW, Qld, Australia
• Arytera divaricata – NSW, Qld, Australia, New Guinea

• Arytera foveolata – Qld, Australia

• Arytera gracilipes – New Caledonia endemic

• Arytera lepidota – New Caledonia endemic
• Arytera lineosquamulata – New Guinea, NE. Qld, Australia
• Arytera littoralis – NE. India, SE Asia, S. China, throughout Malesia incl. to New Guinea and Solomon Islands

• Arytera microphylla – Qld, Australia
• Arytera miniata – New Guinea

• Arytera morobeana – New Guinea
• Arytera multijuga – New Guinea
• Arytera musca – New Guinea
• Arytera nekorensis – New Caledonia endemic –  vulnerable
• Arytera neoebudensis – New Guinea, New Caledonia
• Arytera novaebrittanniae – New Guinea, Solomon Islands

• Arytera oshanesiana – Qld, Australia

• Arytera pauciflora – Qld, Australia
• Arytera pseudofoveolata – New Guinea, Cape York Peninsula, Qld, Australia

Species provisionally named, described and accepted according to the authoritative Australian Plant Census while awaiting formal publication:

• Arytera sp. Dryander Creek (P.R.Sharpe 4184) Qld Herbarium – Qld, Australia

Formerly included here:

• Arytera bullata   ⇒  Mischarytera bullata – New Guinea endemic
• Arytera lautereriana   ⇒  Mischarytera lautereriana, corduroy tamarind – NE. to SE. Qld Australia endemic
• Arytera macrobotrys   ⇒  Mischarytera macrobotrys – New Guinea and Cape York Peninsula, Qld, Australia

References

Cited works

• Web site: Arytera – New South Wales Flora Online . Harden . Gwen J. . December 2003 . PlantNET – The Plant Information Network System . Sydney, Australia . The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust . 2.0 . 11 December 2013 .
• Web site: F.A.Zich . B.P.M.Hyland . T.Whiffen . R.A.Kerrigan . Bernard Hyland . 2020 . Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Home . Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Edition 8 (RFK8) . . 21 June 2021.
• Book: Reynolds . Sally T. . 1985 . Arytera . online version . http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/online-resources/flora/stddisplay.xsql?pnid=48738 . [<!-- http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/publications/flora-of-australia/vol25.html --> Flora of Australia: Volume 25—Melianthaceae to Simaroubaceae ]. Flora of Australia series . 87–93 . CSIRO Publishing / Australian Biological Resources Study . 978-0-644-03724-2 . 11 December 2013 .
• Book: Turner . Hubert . 1994 . Arytera . https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28496586 . Flora Malesiana . Series I, Spermatophyta : Flowering Plants . Adema . F. . Leenhouts . P. W. . van Welzen . P. C. . 11 pt. 3: Sapindaceae . 467–479 . Leiden, The Netherlands . Rijksherbarium / Hortus Botanicus, Leiden University . Digitised, online . 90-71236-21-8. Flora Malesiana .