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, and the Flora of Australia.
Arytera arcuata Radlk. – New Caledonia endemic
Arytera bifoliata Whistler – Tonga
Arytera bifoliolata S.T.Reynolds – New Guinea, NT, Qld, Australia
Arytera brachyphylla Radlk. – New Guinea
Arytera brackenridgei Radlk. – Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, Samoa, New Guinea
Arytera chartacea Radlk. – New Caledonia endemic
Arytera collina (Pancher & Sebert) Radlk. – New Caledonia endemic
Arytera densiflora Radlk. – New Guinea
Arytera dictyoneura S.T.Reynolds – Qld, Australia
Arytera distylis (Benth.) Radlk. – NSW, Qld, Australia
Arytera divaricata F.Muell. – NSW, Qld, Australia, New Guinea
Arytera foveolata F.Muell. – Qld, Australia
Arytera gracilipes Radlk. – New Caledonia endemic
Arytera lepidota Radlk. – New Caledonia endemic
Arytera lineosquamulata H.Turner – New Guinea, NE. Qld, Australia
Arytera littoralisBlume – NE. India, SE Asia, S. China, throughout Malesia incl. to New Guinea and Solomon Islands
Arytera microphylla (Benth.) Radlk. – Qld, Australia
Arytera miniata H.Turner – New Guinea
Arytera morobeana H.Turner – New Guinea
Arytera multijuga H.Turner – New Guinea
Arytera musca H.Turner – New Guinea
Arytera nekorensis H.Turner – New Caledonia endemic – vulnerable
Arytera neoebudensis (Guillaumin) H.Turner – New Guinea, New Caledonia
Arytera novaebrittanniae H.Turner – New Guinea, Solomon Islands
Arytera oshanesiana (F.Muell.) Radlk. – Qld, Australia
Arytera pauciflora S.T.Reynolds – Qld, Australia
Arytera pseudofoveolata H.Turner – New Guinea, Cape York Peninsula, Qld, Australia
Species provisionally named, described and accepted according to the authoritative Australian Plant Census As of June 2014 while awaiting formal publication
Arytera sp. Dryander Creek (P.R.Sharpe 4184) Qld Herbarium – Qld, Australia
