Aerva

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Aerva tomentosa.JPG |image_caption = ''Aerva javanica'' |taxon = Aerva |authority = Forssk.<ref name="ipni">{{cite web | url = http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=93084-3 | title = ''Aerva'' Forssk. | access-date = 2017-01-21 | work = International Plant Names Index | publisher = Plant Names Project }}</ref> |synonyms = *''Aerua'' <small>(''orth. var.'')</small> }}

'''''Aerva''''' is a genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae. Its species are native to the palaeotropics, throughout continental Africa, Madagascar and smaller islands (Mauritius and Socotra), through parts of the Middle East, India, and southeast Asia.<ref name = powo/><ref name="FoP">{{cite web |author=Flora of Pakistan | url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=100701 |author-link=Flora of Pakistan |title=''Aerva'' Forssk. |access-date=2008-04-28}}</ref> ''Aerva javanica'' is an alien in northern Australia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/2646|title=Aerva javanica (Burm.f.) Schult. Kapok Bush|date=14 August 2007|website=FloraBase|access-date=21 January 2017}}</ref>

At least four species in the genus have acquired the {{C4}} carbon fixation pathway.<ref name="SageSage2007">{{cite journal |last1=Sage |first1=R.F. |last2=Sage |first2=T.L. |last3=Pearcy |first3=R.W. |last4=Borsch |first4=T. |title=The taxonomic distribution of {{C4}} photosynthesis in Amaranthaceae sensu stricto|journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=94 |issue=12 |year=2007 |pages=1992–2003 |issn=0002-9122 |doi=10.3732/ajb.94.12.1992|pmid=21636394 }} {{open access}}</ref><ref name="Sage2016">{{cite journal |last=Sage |first=R.F. |year=2016 |title=A portrait of the {{C4}} photosynthetic family on the 50th anniversary of its discovery: species number, evolutionary lineages, and Hall of Fame |journal=Journal of Experimental Botany |volume=67 |issue=14 |pages=4039–4056 |doi=10.1093/jxb/erw156 |issn=0022-0957 |pmid=27053721|doi-access=free }} {{open access}}</ref>

==Species== Six species are accepted.<ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331324-2 ''Aerva'' Forssk.] ''Plants of the World Online''. Retrieved 16 March 2024.</ref> * ''Aerva javanica'' {{small|(Burm.f.) Juss. ex Schult.}} – northern and eastern Africa, Madagascar, Arabian Peninsula and west Asia, Indian subcontinent, and Myanmar * ''Aerva madagassica'' {{small|Suess.}} – Madagascar * ''Aerva radicans'' {{small|Mart.}} – India * ''Aerva sericea'' {{small|Moq.}} – Hawaiian Islands (extinct) * ''Aerva villosa'' {{small|Moq.}} – Mauritius * ''Aerva wightii'' {{small|Hook.f.}} – India

===Formerly placed here=== * ''Nothosaerva brachiata'' {{small|(L.) Wight}} (as ''Aerva brachiata'' {{small|(L.) Mart.}}) * ''Ouret congesta'' {{small|(Balf.f. ex Baker) Kuntze}} (as ''Aerva congesta'' {{small|Balf.f. ex Baker}}) * ''Ouret lanata'' {{small|(L.) Kuntze}} (as ''Aerva lanata'' {{small|(L.) Juss. ex Schult.}}) * ''Paraerva microphylla'' (as ''Aerva microphylla'' {{small|Moq.}}) * ''Paraerva revoluta'' (as ''Aerva revoluta'' {{small|Balf.f.}}) * ''Wadithamnus artemisioides'' {{small|(Vierh. & O.Schwartz) T.Hammer & R.W.Davis}} (as ''Aerva artemisioides'' {{small|Vierh. & O.Schwartz}})<ref>{{cite web|title=Wadithamnus|url=http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=77160326-1|website=International Plant Names Index|access-date=19 February 2017}}</ref><ref name="Hammer">{{Cite journal|last=Hammer|first=Timothy A.|last2=Davis|first2=Robert W.|last3=Thiele|first3=Kevin R.|year=2017|title=''Wadithamnus'', a new monotypic genus in Amaranthaceae|journal=Phytotaxa|volume=295|issue=2|pages=173–184|doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.295.2.5}}</ref>

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==External links== *{{Wikispecies-inline}} *{{cite web | url = http://florabase.calm.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/21380 | title = ''Aerva'' | access-date = 2008-04-28 | author =T.D. Macfarlane, FloraBase: Flora of Western Australia | author-link = Western Australian Herbarium | date = 2007-09-06 | work = Flora Descriptions | publisher = Government of Western Australia }} *{{cite web | url = http://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=531 | title = 2317.000 Aerva Forssk. | access-date = 2008-04-20 | author = Mark Hyde and Bart Wursten | date = August 2007 | work = Flora of Mozambique }}

Category:Aerva Category:Amaranthaceae genera Category:Taxa named by Peter Forsskål Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot