Forestiera Explained

Forestiera is a genus of flowering plants in the olive family, Oleaceae. Members of the genus are often called swampprivets.^{[1] [2]} Most are shrubs.

There are about 20 species, native to Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, Ecuador and the southern half of the United States.^{[3] [4]} Phylogenetics indicate that Forestiera is sister to Hesperelaea, an extinct North American lineage.^[5]

Species include:^{[1] [6]}

1. Forestiera acuminata (Michx.) Poir.  - eastern swampprivet - central and southeastern United States
2. Forestiera angustifolia Torr.  - narrowleaf forestiera, Texas forestiera, Texas swampprivet - Texas, northeastern Mexico
3. Forestiera cartaginensis Donn. Central America, southern Mexico
4. Forestiera corollata Cornejo & Wallander Guatemala
5. Forestiera durangensis Standl. - Durango
6. Forestiera ecuadorensis Cornejo & Bonifaz - Ecuador
7. Forestiera eggersiana Krug & Urban  - inkbush - Puerto Rico, Leeward Islands
8. Forestiera godfreyi L.C. Anders.  - Godfrey's swampprivet - Florida, Georgia, South Carolina
9. Forestiera isabelae Hammel & Cornejo - Costa Rica
10. Forestiera ligustrina (Michx.) Poir.  - upland swamp-privet - Texas, southeastern United States
11. Forestiera macrocarpa Brandegee - Baja California Sur
12. Forestiera phillyreoides (Benth.) Torr. in W.H.Emory - central and southern Mexico
13. Forestiera pubescens Nutt.  - downy forestiera, stretchberry - southwestern United States, northern Mexico
14. Forestiera racemosa S.Watson - Nuevo León
15. Forestiera reticulata Torr.  - netleaf swampprivet - western Texas
16. Forestiera rhamnifolia Griseb.  - caca ravet - Central America, West Indies, southern Mexico, Isla Socorro
17. Forestiera segregata Krug & Urban  - Florida swampprivet - Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, much of West Indies including Puerto Rico, Bahamas, Cayman Islands
18. Forestiera selleana Urb. & Ekman - Hispaniola
19. Forestiera shrevei Standl.  - desert olive - Arizona
20. Forestiera tomentosa S.Watson - central and southern Mexico

Notes and References

1. Web site: Forestiera Poir. . ITIS Standard Reports . Integrated Taxonomic Information System . 2010-02-24.
2. http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=FORES Forestiera.
3. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=369345 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
4. http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_IJM.pl?tid=25982 Forestiera pubescens.
5. Zedane . L. . Hong-Wa . C. . Murienne . J. . Jeziorski . C. . Baldwin . B.G. . Besnard . G. . Museomics illuminate the history of an extinct, paleoendemic plant lineage (Hesperelaea, Oleaceae) known from an 1875 collection from Guadalupe Island, Mexico . Biological Journal of the Linnean Society . 117 . 1 . 2016 . 44–57 . 0024-4066 . 10.1111/bij.12509. free .
6. Web site: Species Records of Forestiera . Germplasm Resources Information Network . United States Department of Agriculture . 2010-02-24.