# Forestiera

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Genus of flowering plants

For the Italian wine grape, see [Forestiera (grape)](/source/Forestiera_(grape)).

Forestiera Forestiera pubescens Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Clade: Embryophytes Clade: Tracheophytes Clade: Spermatophytes Clade: Angiosperms Clade: Eudicots Clade: Asterids Order: Lamiales Family: Oleaceae Tribe: Oleeae Subtribe: Oleinae Genus: Forestiera Poir.[1] Synonyms[2] List Adelia P.Browne Bigelovia Sm. Borya Willd. Carpoxis Raf. Geisarina Raf. Nudilus Raf. Piptolepis Benth.

***Forestiera*** is a genus of [flowering plants](/source/Flowering_plant) in the [olive](/source/Olive) family, [Oleaceae](/source/Oleaceae). Members of the genus are often called **swampprivets**.[3][4] Most are [shrubs](/source/Shrub).

## Species

There are about 20 species, native to Mexico, [Central America](/source/Central_America), the [West Indies](/source/West_Indies), Ecuador and the southern half of the United States.[5][6] [Phylogenetics](/source/Phylogenetics) indicate that *Forestiera* is sister to *[Hesperelaea](/source/Hesperelaea)*, an extinct North American lineage.[7]

The following species are recognised in the genus *Forestiera*:[8]

- *[Forestiera acuminata](/source/Forestiera_acuminata)* (Michx.) Poir. – eastern swampprivet - central and southeastern United States

- *[Forestiera angustifolia](/source/Forestiera_angustifolia)* Torr. – narrowleaf forestiera, Texas forestiera, Texas swampprivet - Texas, northeastern Mexico

- *[Forestiera cartaginensis](/source/Forestiera_cartaginensis)* Donn. Central America, southern Mexico

- *[Forestiera corollata](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Forestiera_corollata&action=edit&redlink=1)* Cornejo & Wallander Guatemala

- *[Forestiera durangensis](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Forestiera_durangensis&action=edit&redlink=1)* Standl. - Durango

- *[Forestiera ecuadorensis](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Forestiera_ecuadorensis&action=edit&redlink=1)* Cornejo & Bonifaz - Ecuador

- *[Forestiera eggersiana](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Forestiera_eggersiana&action=edit&redlink=1)* Krug & Urban – inkbush - Puerto Rico, Leeward Islands

- *[Forestiera godfreyi](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Forestiera_godfreyi&action=edit&redlink=1)* L.C. Anders. – Godfrey's swampprivet - Florida, Georgia, South Carolina

- *[Forestiera isabelae](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Forestiera_isabelae&action=edit&redlink=1)* Hammel & Cornejo - Costa Rica

- *[Forestiera ligustrina](/source/Forestiera_ligustrina)* (Michx.) Poir. – upland swamp-privet - Texas, southeastern United States

- *[Forestiera macrocarpa](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Forestiera_macrocarpa&action=edit&redlink=1)* Brandegee - Baja California Sur

- *[Forestiera phillyreoides](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Forestiera_phillyreoides&action=edit&redlink=1)* (Benth.) Torr. in W.H.Emory - central and southern Mexico

- *[Forestiera pubescens](/source/Forestiera_pubescens)* [Nutt.](/source/Thomas_Nuttall) – downy forestiera, stretchberry - southwestern United States, northern Mexico

- *[Forestiera racemosa](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Forestiera_racemosa&action=edit&redlink=1)* S.Watson - Nuevo León

- *[Forestiera reticulata](/source/Forestiera_reticulata)* Torr. – netleaf swampprivet - western Texas

- *[Forestiera rhamnifolia](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Forestiera_rhamnifolia&action=edit&redlink=1)* Griseb. – *caca ravet* - Central America, West Indies, southern Mexico, Isla Socorro

- *[Forestiera rotundifolia](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Forestiera_rotundifolia&action=edit&redlink=1)* (Brandegee) Standl.

- *[Forestiera segregata](/source/Forestiera_segregata)* Krug & Urban – Florida swampprivet - Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, much of West Indies including Puerto Rico, Bahamas, Cayman Islands

- *[Forestiera selleana](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Forestiera_selleana&action=edit&redlink=1)* Urb. & Ekman - Hispaniola

- *[Forestiera shrevei](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Forestiera_shrevei&action=edit&redlink=1)* Standl. – desert olive - Arizona

- *[Forestiera tomentosa](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Forestiera_tomentosa&action=edit&redlink=1)* S.Watson - central and southern Mexico

- *[Forestiera veracruzana](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Forestiera_veracruzana&action=edit&redlink=1)* Cast.-Campos & Pal.-Wass.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-GRIN_1-0)** ["*Forestiera* Poir"](https://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?4728). *Germplasm Resources Information Network*. United States Department of Agriculture. 2007-10-05. Retrieved 2010-02-22.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Forestiera Poir. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science"](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331613-2). *Plants of the World Online*. Retrieved 2025-02-04.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-ITIS_3-0)** ["*Forestiera* Poir"](https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=32951). *ITIS Standard Reports*. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2010-02-24.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [*Forestiera*.](https://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=FORES) USDA PLANTS.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-for_5-0)** [Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families](http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=369345)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-jeps_6-0)** [*Forestiera pubescens*.](http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_IJM.pl?tid=25982) The Jepson eFlora 2013.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Zedane2016_7-0)** Zedane, L.; Hong-Wa, C.; Murienne, J.; Jeziorski, C.; Baldwin, B.G.; Besnard, G. (2016). ["Museomics illuminate the history of an extinct, paleoendemic plant lineage (*Hesperelaea*, Oleaceae) known from an 1875 collection from Guadalupe Island, Mexico"](https://cloudfront.escholarship.org/dist/prd/content/qt1615g4rh/qt1615g4rh.pdf) (PDF). *Biological Journal of the Linnean Society*. **117** (1): 44–57. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1111/bij.12509](https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fbij.12509). [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0024-4066](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0024-4066).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["Forestiera Poir. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science"](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331613-2). *Plants of the World Online*. Retrieved 2025-02-04.

## External links

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Taxon identifiers Forestiera Wikidata: Q355080 Wikispecies: Forestiera CoL: 8VXQ3 EPPO: 1FORG FNA: 112931 GBIF: 3172377 GRIN: 4728 iNaturalist: 58213 IPNI: 331613-2 IRMNG: 1032906 ITIS: 32951 NCBI: 126412 Open Tree of Life: 249052 Paleobiology Database: 369963 PLANTS: FORES POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331613-2 Tropicos: 40010258 WFO: wfo-4000014933

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