# Eurya

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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Eurya japonica3.jpg
|image_caption = ''[Eurya japonica](/source/Eurya_japonica)'', habitus
|taxon = Eurya
|authority = [Thunb.](/source/Carl_Peter_Thunberg)
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision = See text
}}

'''''Eurya''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [flowering plant](/source/flowering_plant)s in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Pentaphylacaceae](/source/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](/source/fossil) seeds of ''Eurya stigmosa'' have been described from [Middle Miocene](/source/Middle_Miocene) [strata](/source/strata) of the Fasterholt area near [Silkeborg](/source/Silkeborg) in central [Jutland](/source/Jutland), Denmark.<ref>Angiosperm Fruits and Seeds from the Middle Miocene of Jutland (Denmark) by [Else Marie Friis](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Zanclean) [strata](/source/strata) of the [Pliocene](/source/Pliocene) in [Pocapaglia](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Eurya_emarginata)''
* ''[Eurya japonica](/source/Eurya_japonica)'' <small>Thunb.</small>
* ''[Eurya rapensis](/source/Eurya_rapensis)'' <small>F.Brown</small>
* ''[Eurya rengechiensis](/source/Eurya_rengechiensis)'' <small>Yamamoto</small> ([Taiwan](/source/Taiwan))
* ''[Eurya sandwicensis](/source/Eurya_sandwicensis)'' <small>[A.Gray](/source/Asa_Gray)</small> - ''Ānini'' ([Hawai{{okina}}i](/source/Hawaii))

The leaves of ''Eurya'' are eaten by [caterpillar](/source/caterpillar)s of some [Lepidoptera](/source/Lepidoptera), such as [the engrailed](/source/the_engrailed) (''Ectropis crepuscularia'').

==References==
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