Aerva
Aerva lanata var. rotundifolia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Subfamily: Amaranthoideae
Genus: Aerva
Forssk.[1]
Synonyms

Aerva is a genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae. Its species are native to the palaeotropics, throughout continental Africa, Madagascar and smaller islands (Rodrigues, Mauritius, Socotra), through parts of the Middle East, India, and southeast Asia.[3][4] Aerva javanica is an alien in northern Australia.[5]

At least four species in the genus have acquired the C4 carbon fixation pathway.[6][7]

Selected species

List of species within the genus sensu Thiv et al. (2006)[3] & Hammer et al. (2017):[8]

Taxa in synonymy

  • Aerva artemisioides Vierh. & O.Schwartz ≡ Wadithamnus artemisioides (Vierh. & O.Schwartz) T.Hammer & R.W.Davis[9]

References

  1. "Aerva Forssk". International Plant Names Index. Plant Names Project. Retrieved 2017-01-21.
  2. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. "Amaranthaceae by C. C. Townsend". Flora Zambesiaca. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 9 (part:1). Retrieved 2008-04-29.
  3. 1 2 Thiv, Mike; Thulin, Mats; Kilian, Norbert; Linder, H. Peter (2006). "Eritreo-Arabian Affinities of the Socotran Flora as Revealed from the Molecular Phylogeny of Aerva (Amaranthaceae)". Systematic Botany. 31 (3): 560–570. doi:10.1600/036364406778388683.
  4. Flora of Pakistan. "Aerva Forssk". Retrieved 2008-04-28.
  5. "Aerva javanica (Burm.f.) Schult. Kapok Bush". FloraBase. 14 August 2007. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  6. Sage, R.F.; Sage, T.L.; Pearcy, R.W.; Borsch, T. (2007). "The taxonomic distribution of C4 photosynthesis in Amaranthaceae sensu stricto". American Journal of Botany. 94 (12): 1992–2003. doi:10.3732/ajb.94.12.1992. ISSN 0002-9122. PMID 21636394. Open access icon
  7. Sage, R.F. (2016). "A portrait of the C4 photosynthetic family on the 50th anniversary of its discovery: species number, evolutionary lineages, and Hall of Fame". Journal of Experimental Botany. 67 (14): 4039–4056. doi:10.1093/jxb/erw156. ISSN 0022-0957. PMID 27053721. Open access icon
  8. Hammer, Timothy A.; Davis, Robert W.; Thiele, Kevin R. (2017). "Wadithamnus, a new monotypic genus in Amaranthaceae". Phytotaxa. 295 (2): 173–184. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.295.2.5.
  9. "Wadithamnus". International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 19 February 2017.


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