{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{For|the Italian wine grape|Forestiera (grape)}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Forestiera pubescens 3.jpg | image_caption = ''[[Forestiera pubescens]]'' | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Forestiera | authority = [[Jean Louis Marie Poiret|Poir.]]<ref name="GRIN">{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?4728 |title=''Forestiera'' Poir. |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2007-10-05 |accessdate=2010-02-22}}</ref> | synonyms_ref = <ref>{{Cite web |title=Forestiera Poir. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331613-2 |access-date=2025-02-04 |website=Plants of the World Online |language=en}}</ref> | synonyms = {{hidden begin|title = List}} * ''Adelia'' <small>P.Browne</small> * ''Bigelovia'' <small>Sm.</small> * ''Borya'' <small>Willd.</small> * ''Carpoxis'' <small>Raf.</small> * ''Geisarina'' <small>Raf.</small> * ''Nudilus'' <small>Raf.</small> * ''Piptolepis'' <small>Benth.</small> {{hidden end}} }}
'''''Forestiera''''' is a genus of [[flowering plant]]s in the [[olive]] family, [[Oleaceae]]. Members of the genus are often called '''swampprivets'''.<ref name="ITIS">{{cite web |url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=32951 |title=''Forestiera'' Poir. |work=ITIS Standard Reports |publisher=Integrated Taxonomic Information System |accessdate=2010-02-24}}</ref><ref>[https://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=FORES ''Forestiera''.] USDA PLANTS.</ref> Most are [[shrub]]s.
==Species== There are about 20 species, native to Mexico, [[Central America]], the [[West Indies]], Ecuador and the southern half of the United States.<ref name="for">[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=369345 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref><ref name=jeps>[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_IJM.pl?tid=25982 ''Forestiera pubescens''.] The Jepson eFlora 2013.</ref> [[Phylogenetics]] indicate that ''Forestiera'' is sister to ''[[Hesperelaea]]'', an extinct North American lineage.<ref name="Zedane2016">{{cite journal |last1=Zedane |first1=L. |last2=Hong-Wa |first2=C. |last3=Murienne |first3=J. |last4=Jeziorski |first4=C. |last5=Baldwin |first5=B.G. |last6=Besnard |first6=G. |title=Museomics illuminate the history of an extinct, paleoendemic plant lineage (''Hesperelaea'', Oleaceae) known from an 1875 collection from Guadalupe Island, Mexico |journal=Biological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=117 |issue=1 |year=2016 |pages=44–57 |issn=0024-4066 |doi=10.1111/bij.12509|url=https://cloudfront.escholarship.org/dist/prd/content/qt1615g4rh/qt1615g4rh.pdf |doi-access=free }}</ref>
The following species are recognised in the genus ''Forestiera'':<ref>{{Cite web |title=Forestiera Poir. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331613-2 |access-date=2025-02-04 |website=Plants of the World Online |language=en}}</ref> * ''[[Forestiera acuminata]]'' <small>(Michx.) Poir.</small> – eastern swampprivet - central and southeastern United States * ''[[Forestiera angustifolia]]'' <small>Torr.</small> – narrowleaf forestiera, Texas forestiera, Texas swampprivet - Texas, northeastern Mexico * ''[[Forestiera cartaginensis ]]'' <small>Donn.</small> Central America, southern Mexico * ''[[Forestiera corollata ]]'' <small>Cornejo & Wallander</small> Guatemala * ''[[Forestiera durangensis]]'' <small>Standl.</small> - Durango * ''[[Forestiera ecuadorensis]]'' <small>Cornejo & Bonifaz</small> - Ecuador * ''[[Forestiera eggersiana]]'' <small>Krug & Urban</small> – inkbush - Puerto Rico, Leeward Islands * ''[[Forestiera godfreyi]]'' <small>L.C. Anders.</small> – Godfrey's swampprivet - Florida, Georgia, South Carolina * ''[[Forestiera isabelae]]'' <small>Hammel & Cornejo</small> - Costa Rica * ''[[Forestiera ligustrina]]'' <small>(Michx.) Poir.</small> – upland swamp-privet - Texas, southeastern United States * ''[[Forestiera macrocarpa]]'' <small>Brandegee</small> - Baja California Sur * ''[[Forestiera phillyreoides]]'' <small>(Benth.) Torr. in W.H.Emory</small> - central and southern Mexico * ''[[Forestiera pubescens]]'' <small>[[Thomas Nuttall|Nutt.]]</small> – downy forestiera, stretchberry - southwestern United States, northern Mexico * ''[[Forestiera racemosa]]'' <small>S.Watson</small> - Nuevo León * ''[[Forestiera reticulata]]'' <small>Torr.</small> – netleaf swampprivet - western Texas * ''[[Forestiera rhamnifolia]]'' <small>Griseb.</small> – ''caca ravet'' - Central America, West Indies, southern Mexico, Isla Socorro * ''[[Forestiera rotundifolia]]'' <small>(Brandegee) Standl.</small> * ''[[Forestiera segregata]]'' <small>Krug & Urban</small> – Florida swampprivet - Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, much of West Indies including Puerto Rico, Bahamas, Cayman Islands * ''[[Forestiera selleana]]'' <small>Urb. & Ekman</small> - Hispaniola * ''[[Forestiera shrevei]]'' <small>Standl.</small> – desert olive - Arizona * ''[[Forestiera tomentosa]]'' <small>S.Watson</small> - central and southern Mexico * ''[[Forestiera veracruzana]]'' <small>Cast.-Campos & Pal.-Wass.</small>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commonscat-inline|Forestiera|''Forestiera''}} {{Wikispecies-inline|''Forestiera''}}
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