# Aerva

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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Aerva tomentosa.JPG
|image_caption = ''[Aerva javanica](/source/Aerva_javanica)''
|taxon = Aerva
|authority = [Forssk.](/source/Peter_Forssk%C3%A5l)<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.](/source/orth._var.)'')</small>
}}

'''''Aerva''''' is a genus of [plant](/source/plant)s in the family [Amaranthaceae](/source/Amaranthaceae). Its species are native to the palaeotropics, throughout continental [Africa](/source/Africa), [Madagascar](/source/Madagascar) and smaller islands ([Mauritius](/source/Mauritius) and  [Socotra](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Plants_of_the_World_Online)''. Retrieved 16 March 2024.</ref>
* ''[Aerva javanica](/source/Aerva_javanica)'' {{small|(Burm.f.) Juss. ex Schult.}} – northern and eastern Africa, Madagascar, Arabian Peninsula and west Asia, Indian subcontinent, and Myanmar
* ''[Aerva madagassica](/source/Aerva_madagassica)'' {{small|Suess.}} – Madagascar
* ''[Aerva radicans](/source/Aerva_radicans)'' {{small|Mart.}} – India
* ''[Aerva sericea](/source/Aerva_sericea)'' {{small|Moq.}} – Hawaiian Islands (extinct)
* ''[Aerva villosa](/source/Aerva_villosa)'' {{small|Moq.}} – Mauritius
* ''[Aerva wightii](/source/Aerva_wightii)'' {{small|Hook.f.}} – India

===Formerly placed here===
* ''[Nothosaerva brachiata](/source/Nothosaerva_brachiata)'' {{small|(L.) Wight}} (as ''Aerva brachiata'' {{small|(L.) Mart.}})
* ''[Ouret congesta](/source/Ouret_congesta)'' {{small|(Balf.f. ex Baker) Kuntze}} (as ''Aerva congesta'' {{small|Balf.f. ex Baker}})
* ''[Ouret lanata](/source/Ouret_lanata)'' {{small|(L.) Kuntze}} (as ''Aerva lanata'' {{small|(L.) Juss. ex Schult.}})
* ''[Paraerva microphylla](/source/Paraerva_microphylla)'' (as ''Aerva microphylla'' {{small|Moq.}})
* ''[Paraerva revoluta](/source/Paraerva_revoluta)'' (as ''Aerva revoluta'' {{small|Balf.f.}})
* ''[Wadithamnus artemisioides](/source/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>

==References==
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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](/source/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
}}

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

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