Eurya

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Eurya japonica3.jpg |image_caption = ''Eurya japonica'', habitus |taxon = Eurya |authority = Thunb. |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = See text }}

'''''Eurya''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Pentaphylacaceae.<ref>{{Citation |last=Stevens |first=P.F. |title=Angiosperm Phylogeny Website |url=http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/ |access-date=2014-09-18 }}</ref>

==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.<ref>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</ref> ''E. stigmosa'' is also known from Pliocene Portugal.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Martinetto |first1=Edoardo |last2=Vieira |first2=Manuel |date=October 2020 |title=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 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S003466672030141X |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |language=en |volume=281 |article-number=104286 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104286 |bibcode=2020RPaPa.28104286M |access-date=2 November 2024 |via=Elsevier Science Direct|url-access=subscription }}</ref> ''Eurya'' macrofossils have also been described from late Zanclean strata of the Pliocene in Pocapaglia, Italy.<ref>Messian to Zanclean vegetation and climate of Northern and Central Italy by Adele Bertini & Edoardo Martinetto, Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 47 (2), 2008, 105-121. Modena, 11 lugio 2008.</ref> Seed fossils of ''Eurya stigmosa'' were also reported from the Early Pleistocene (Calabrian stage) of Madeira Island (Atlantic Ocean, Portugal)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Góis-Marques |first1=Carlos A. |last2=Mitchell |first2=Ria L. |last3=de Nascimento |first3=Lea |last4=Fernández-Palacios |first4=José María |last5=Madeira |first5=José |last6=Menezes de Sequeira |first6=Miguel |title=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 |journal=Quaternary Science Reviews |date=February 2019 |volume=206 |pages=129–140 |doi=10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.01.008|hdl=10400.13/4182 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

==Species== The genus contains 163 species.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eurya Thunb. |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30005365-2 |access-date=2026-02-23 |website=Plants of the World Online |language=en}}</ref> * ''Eurya emarginata'' * ''Eurya japonica'' Thunb. * ''Eurya rapensis'' F.Brown * ''Eurya rengechiensis'' Yamamoto (Taiwan) * ''Eurya sandwicensis'' A.Gray - ''Ānini'' (Hawai{{okina}}i)

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

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