Goetzea Explained

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.^[1] It was for about half a century included in the now defunct family Goetzeaceae Miers ex Airy Shaw ^[2]

Note

This is not to be confused with Goetzea, Rchb., a genus in the Fabaceaea, the bean family

Species

• • Goetzea amoena Griseb. Goetzea eggersii Urban ex Radlk.
• Goetzea ekmanii O.E.Schulz ex O.C.Schmidt
• Goetzea elegans Wydler

Notes

• Santiago-Valentin . E. . Olmstead . R.G. . Phylogenetics of the Antillean Goetzeoideae (Solanaceae) and Their Relationships within the Solanaceae based on Chloroplast and ITS DNA Sequence Data . Systematic Botany . 28 . 2 . 452–460 . 2003 . 10.1043/0363-6445-28.2.452 . 31 January 2024 . 3094013 .

External links

• Book: Hunziker, Armando T. . Armando Theodoro Hunziker

. Armando Theodoro Hunziker . 2001 . The Genera of Solanaceae . A.R.G. Gantner Verlag K.G. . Ruggell, Liechtenstein . 3-904144-77-4.

• MOBOT Tropicos
• ITIS

Notes and References

1. Linnaea 5: 423, t. 8. 1830
2. A New Genus of the Tribe Sophoreae (Leguminosae) from Western Africa and Borneo . R.K. . Brummitt . Kew Bull . 18 . 3 . 1964 . 375–386 . 10.2307/4108328 . 4108328.