see text Ehretia is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae.

It contains 66 species native to the tropics and subtropics of the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Papuasia, and Australia.

[1] The generic name honors German botanical illustrator Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708–1770).

[2] Accepted species and other notable taxa[1] †Ehretia europaea fossil seeds of the Chattian stage, Oligocene, are known from the Oberleichtersbach Formation in the Rhön Mountains, central Germany.

[3] Endocarp fossils have been described from the Late Miocene locality of Pont-de-Gail in France and from the southern border of the Po Plain in northern Italy in two sites dated to the Zanclean and in three sites of supposed Zanclean age[4] This Boraginaceae article is a stub.