Arytera


Arytera is a genus of about twenty–eight species known to science, of trees and shrubs and constituting part of the plant family Sapindaceae. They grow naturally in New Guinea, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Australia, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga; and the most widespread species and type species A. littoralis grows throughout Malesia and across Southeast Asia, from NE. India, southern China, Borneo, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines 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 rainforests of eastern Australia and 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.
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 and Australian Plant Census, 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, the Flora of Tonga, the Flora of New South Wales, the Flora of Australia, and Plants of the World Online.Arytera bifoliata – TongaArytera bifoliolata – New Guinea, NT, Qld, AustraliaArytera brachyphylla – New GuineaArytera densiflora – New GuineaArytera dictyoneura – Qld, AustraliaArytera distylis – NSW, Qld, AustraliaArytera divaricata – NSW, Qld, Australia, New GuineaArytera foveolata – Qld, AustraliaArytera lepidota – New Caledonia endemicArytera lineosquamulata – New Guinea, NE. Qld, AustraliaArytera littoralis – NE. India, SE Asia, S. China, throughout Malesia incl. to New Guinea and Solomon IslandsArytera microphylla – Qld, AustraliaArytera miniata – New GuineaArytera morobeana – New GuineaArytera multijuga – New GuineaArytera musca – New GuineaArytera novaebrittanniae – New Guinea, Solomon IslandsArytera oshanesiana – Qld, AustraliaArytera pauciflora – Qld, AustraliaArytera 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 Qld Herbarium – Qld, Australia

Formerly placed here

Lepidocupania arcuata – New Caledonia endemicLepidocupania brackenridgei – Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, Samoa, Solomon IslandsLepidocupania gracilipes – New Caledonia endemicMischarytera bullata – New Guinea endemicMischarytera lautereriana, corduroy tamarind – NE. to SE. Qld Australia endemicMischarytera macrobotrys – New Guinea and Cape York Peninsula, Qld, Australia
  • Neoarytera chartacea – New Caledonia endemic
  • Neoarytera collina – New Caledonia endemic
  • Neoarytera nekorensis – New Caledonia endemic – vulnerable
  • Neoarytera neoebudensis – New Guinea, New Caledonia