Eurya

Eurya is a genus of about 70 species of flowering plants in the family Pentaphylacaceae.^[1]

Eurya
Eurya japonica, habitus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Ericales
Family:	Pentaphylacaceae
Tribe:	Freziereae
Genus:	Eurya Thunb.
Species
See text

Fossil record

Several fossil seeds of Eurya stigmosa have been described from Middle Miocene strata of the Fasterholt area near Silkeborg in central Jutland, Denmark.^[2] E. stigmosa is also known from Pliocene Portugal.^[3] Eurya macrofossils have also been described from late Zanclean strata of the Pliocene in Pocapaglia, Italy.^[4] Seed fossils of Eurya stigmosa were also reported from the Early Pleistocene (Calabrian stage) of Madeira Island (Atlantic Ocean, Portugal)^[5]

Species

• Eurya emarginata
• Eurya japonica Thunb.
• Eurya rapensis F.Brown
• Eurya rengechiensis Yamamoto (Taiwan)
• Eurya sandwicensis A.Gray - Ānini (Hawaiʻi)

The leaves of Eurya are eaten by caterpillars of some Lepidoptera, such as the engrailed (Ectropis crepuscularia).