Arytera Multijuga

''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'' (Fiji), the ''Flora of Tonga'', the ''Flora of New South Wales'', the ''Flora of Australia'', and ''Plants of the World Online''.

* '' Arytera bifoliata'' – Tonga
* '' Arytera bifoliolata'' – New Guinea, NT, Qld, Australia
* '' Arytera brachyphylla'' – New Guinea

* '' Arytera densiflora'' – New Guinea
* '' Arytera dictyoneura'' – Qld, Australia
* '' Arytera distylis'' – NSW, Qld, Australia
* ''Arytera divaricata'' – NSW, Qld, Australia, New Guinea

* '' Arytera foveolata'' – Qld, Australia

* '' Arytera lepidota'' – New Caledonia endemic
* '' Arytera lineosquamulata'' – New Guinea, NE. Qld, Australia
* ''Arytera littoralis'' – NE. India, SE Asia, S. China, throughout Malesia incl. to New Guinea and Solomon Islands

* '' Arytera microphylla'' – Qld, Australia
* '' Arytera miniata'' – New Guinea

* '' Arytera morobeana'' – New Guinea
* '' Arytera multijuga'' – New Guinea
* '' Arytera musca'' – New Guinea
* '' Arytera novaebrittanniae'' – New Guinea, Solomon Islands

* '' Arytera oshanesiana'' – Qld, Australia

* '' Arytera pauciflora'' – Qld, Australia
* '' Arytera 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 (P.R.Sharpe 4184) Qld Herbarium – Qld, Australia

Formerly placed here

* '' Lepidocupania arcuata'' (as ''Arytera arcuata'' ) – New Caledonia endemic
* '' Lepidocupania brackenridgei'' (as ''Arytera brackenridgei'' ) – Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, Samoa, Solomon Islands
* '' Lepidocupania gracilipes'' (as ''Arytera gracilipes'' ) – New Caledonia endemic
* '' Mischarytera bullata'' (as ''Arytera bullata'' ) – New Guinea endemic
* '' Mischarytera lautereriana'' (as ''Arytera lautereriana'' ), corduroy tamarind – NE. to SE. Qld Australia endemic
* '' Mischarytera macrobotrys'' (as ''Arytera macrobotrys'' ) – New Guinea and Cape York Peninsula, Qld, Australia
*''Neoarytera chartacea'' (as ''Arytera chartacea'' ) – New Caledonia endemic
*''Neoarytera collina'' (as ''Arytera collina'' ) – New Caledonia endemic
*''Neoarytera nekorensis'' (as ''Arytera nekorensis'' ) – New Caledonia endemic –  vulnerable
*''Neoarytera neoebudensis'' (as ''Arytera neoebudensis'' ) – New Guinea, New Caledonia

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Sapindaceae genera