Eurya

Eurya
	Eurya japonica, habitus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Ericales
Family:	Pentaphylacaceae
Tribe:	Freziereae
Genus:	Eurya; Thunb.
Species
	See text

Eurya is a genus of about 70 species of flowering plants in the family Pentaphylacaceae.^[1]

Fossil record

Several fossil seeds of Eurya stigmosa have been described from Middle Miocene strata of the Fasterholt area near Silkeborg in central Jutland, Denmark.^[2] E. stigmosa is also known from Pliocene Portugal.^[3] Eurya macrofossils have also been described from late Zanclean strata of the Pliocene in Pocapaglia, Italy.^[4] Seed fossils of Eurya stigmosa were also reported from the Early Pleistocene (Calabrian stage) of Madeira Island (Atlantic Ocean, Portugal)^[5]

Species

Eurya emarginata
Eurya japonica Thunb.
Eurya rapensis F.Brown
Eurya rengechiensis Yamamoto (Taiwan)
Eurya sandwicensis A.Gray - Ānini (Hawaiʻi)

The leaves of Eurya are eaten by caterpillars of some Lepidoptera, such as the engrailed (Ectropis crepuscularia).

References

^ Stevens, P.F., Angiosperm Phylogeny Website, retrieved 2014-09-18
^ Angiosperm Fruits and Seeds from the Middle Miocene of Jutland (Denmark) by Else Marie Friis, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 24:3, 1985
^ Martinetto, Edoardo; Vieira, Manuel (October 2020). "New Pliocene records of plant fossil-taxa from NW Portugal and their relevance for the assessment of diversity loss patterns in the late Cenozoic of Europe". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 281: 104286. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104286. Retrieved 2 November 2024 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
^ Messian to Zanclean vegetation and climate of Northern and Central Italy by Adele Bertini & Edoardo Martinetto, Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana, 47 (2), 2008, 105-121. Modena, 11 lugio 2008.
^ Góis-Marques, Carlos A.; Mitchell, Ria L.; de Nascimento, Lea; Fernández-Palacios, José María; Madeira, José; Menezes de Sequeira, Miguel (February 2019). "Eurya stigmosa (Theaceae), a new and extinct record for the Calabrian stage of Madeira Island (Portugal): 40Ar/39Ar dating, palaeoecological and oceanic island palaeobiogeographical implications". Quaternary Science Reviews. 206: 129–140. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.01.008. hdl:10400.13/4182.

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[1] Stevens, P.F., Angiosperm Phylogeny Website, retrieved 2014-09-18

[2] Angiosperm Fruits and Seeds from the Middle Miocene of Jutland (Denmark) by Else Marie Friis, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 24:3, 1985

[3] Martinetto, Edoardo; Vieira, Manuel (October 2020). "New Pliocene records of plant fossil-taxa from NW Portugal and their relevance for the assessment of diversity loss patterns in the late Cenozoic of Europe". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 281: 104286. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104286. Retrieved 2 November 2024 – via Elsevier Science Direct.

[4] Messian to Zanclean vegetation and climate of Northern and Central Italy by Adele Bertini & Edoardo Martinetto, Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana, 47 (2), 2008, 105-121. Modena, 11 lugio 2008.

[5] Góis-Marques, Carlos A.; Mitchell, Ria L.; de Nascimento, Lea; Fernández-Palacios, José María; Madeira, José; Menezes de Sequeira, Miguel (February 2019). "Eurya stigmosa (Theaceae), a new and extinct record for the Calabrian stage of Madeira Island (Portugal): 40Ar/39Ar dating, palaeoecological and oceanic island palaeobiogeographical implications". Quaternary Science Reviews. 206: 129–140. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.01.008. hdl:10400.13/4182.

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