Arytera

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Arytera divaricata colourful orange new growth

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, the Flora of Australia, and Plants of the World Online.

• Arytera bifoliata Template:Au – Tonga
• Arytera bifoliolata Template:Au – New Guinea, NT, Qld, Australia
• Arytera brachyphylla Template:Au – New Guinea
• Arytera densiflora Template:Au – New Guinea
• Arytera dictyoneura Template:Au – Qld, Australia
• Arytera distylis Template:Au – NSW, Qld, Australia
• Arytera divaricata Template:Au – NSW, Qld, Australia, New Guinea
• Arytera foveolata Template:Au – Qld, Australia
• Arytera lepidota Template:Au – New Caledonia endemic
• Arytera lineosquamulata Template:Au – New Guinea, NE. Qld, Australia
• Arytera littoralis Template:Au – NE. India, SE Asia, S. China, throughout Malesia incl. to New Guinea and Solomon Islands
• Arytera microphylla Template:Au – Qld, Australia
• Arytera miniata Template:Au – New Guinea
• Arytera morobeana Template:Au – New Guinea
• Arytera multijuga Template:Au – New Guinea
• Arytera musca Template:Au – New Guinea
• Arytera novaebrittanniae Template:Au – New Guinea, Solomon Islands
• Arytera oshanesiana Template:Au – Qld, Australia
• Arytera pauciflora Template:Au – Qld, Australia
• Arytera pseudofoveolata Template:Au – New Guinea, Cape York Peninsula, Qld, Australia

Species provisionally named, described and accepted according to the authoritative Australian Plant Census since June 2014Template:Dated maintenance category (articles) while awaiting formal publication

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

Formerly placed here

• Lepidocupania arcuata (Radlk.) Buerki, Callm., Munzinger & Lowry (as Arytera arcuata Template:Au) – New Caledonia endemic
• Lepidocupania brackenridgei (A.Gray) Buerki, Callm., Munzinger & Lowry (as Arytera brackenridgei Template:Au) – Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, Samoa, Solomon Islands
• Lepidocupania gracilipes (Radlk.) Buerki, Callm., Munzinger & Lowry (as Arytera gracilipes Template:Au) – New Caledonia endemic
• Mischarytera bullata Template:Au (as Arytera bullata Template:Au) – New Guinea endemic
• Mischarytera lautereriana Template:Au (as Arytera lautereriana Template:Au), corduroy tamarind – NE. to SE. Qld Australia endemic
• Mischarytera macrobotrys Template:Au (as Arytera macrobotrys Template:Au) – New Guinea and Cape York Peninsula, Qld, Australia
• Neoarytera chartacea (Radlk.) Callm., Buerki, Munzinger & Lowry (as Arytera chartacea Template:Au) – New Caledonia endemic
• Neoarytera collina (Pancher & Sebert) Callm., Buerki, Munzinger & Lowry (as Arytera collina Template:Au) – New Caledonia endemic
• Neoarytera nekorensis (H.Turner) Callm., Buerki, Munzinger & Lowry (as Arytera nekorensis Template:Au) – New Caledonia endemic – Globally vulnerable
• Neoarytera neoebudensis (Guillaumin) Callm., Buerki, Munzinger & Lowry (as Arytera neoebudensis Template:Au) – New Guinea, New Caledonia