Arytera Pauciflora
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''Arytera'' is a
genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of about twenty–eight species known to science, of trees and
shrub A shrub (often also called a bush) is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees ...
s and constituting part of the plant family
Sapindaceae The Sapindaceae are a family of flowering plants in the order Sapindales known as the soapberry family. It contains 138 genera and 1858 accepted species. Examples include horse chestnut, maples, ackee and lychee. The Sapindaceae occur in tempera ...
. They grow naturally in
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,
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, Australia, the
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; and the most widespread species and
type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...
''A. littoralis'' grows throughout
Malesia Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the Equator and the boundaries of the Indomalayan and Australasian realms, and also a phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical Kingdom. It has been given different definitions. The ...
and across Southeast Asia, from NE.
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, southern China,
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,
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, Singapore, Indonesia and the
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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
rainforest Rainforests are characterized by a closed and continuous tree canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire. Rainforest can be classified as tropical rainforest or temperate rainfores ...
s of eastern Australia and the
Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. 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 Charles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume (9 June 1796, Braunschweig – 3 February 1862, Leiden) was a German-Dutch botanist. He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life wor ...
. 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 The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is an online database of all published names of Australian vascular plants. It covers all names, whether current names, synonyms or invalid names. It includes bibliographic and typification details, informati ...
'' and ''
Australian Plant Census The Australian Plant Census (APC) provides an online interface to currently accepted, published, scientific names of the vascular flora of Australia, as one of the output interfaces of the national government Integrated Biodiversity Information Syst ...
'', 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


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Cited works

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