Aerva
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 (Burm.f.) Schult. is an alien in northern Australia.[5]
| Aerva | |
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| Aerva lanata var. rotundifolia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Amaranthaceae |
| Subfamily: | Amaranthoideae |
| Genus: | Aerva Forssk.[1] |
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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]
- Aerva congesta Balf. f.
- Aerva coriacea Schinz
- Aerva glabrata Hook. f.
- Aerva humbertii Cavaco
- Aerva javanica (Burm.f.) Schult.
- Aerva lanata (L.) Juss. ex Schult.
- Aerva leucura Moq.
- Aerva microphylla Moq.
- Aerva revoluta Balf.f.
- Aerva sanguinolenta (L.) Blume
- Aerva triangularifolia Cavaco
Taxa in synonymy
- Aerva artemisioides Vierh. & O.Schwartz ≡ Wadithamnus artemisioides (Vierh. & O.Schwartz) T.Hammer & R.W.Davis[9]
References
- "Aerva Forssk". International Plant Names Index. Plant Names Project. Retrieved 2017-01-21.
- 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.
- 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.
- Flora of Pakistan. "Aerva Forssk". Retrieved 2008-04-28.
- "Aerva javanica (Burm.f.) Schult. Kapok Bush". FloraBase. 14 August 2007. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- "Wadithamnus". International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
External links
Data related to Aerva at Wikispecies
- T.D. Macfarlane, FloraBase: Flora of Western Australia (2007-09-06). "Aerva". Flora Descriptions. Government of Western Australia. Retrieved 2008-04-28.
- Mark Hyde and Bart Wursten (August 2007). "2317.000 Aerva Forssk". Flora of Mozambique. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
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