{{Short description|Genus of plants}} {{Speciesbox |image = Henonia scoparia.jpg |image_caption = |status = EN |status_system = IUCN3.1 |status_ref = <ref name = iucn>Faranirina, L. 2021. ''Henonia scoparia'' (amended version of 2019 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T127858829A194109850. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T127858829A194109850.en. Accessed 21 September 2022.</ref> |display_parents = 2 |genus = Henonia |parent_authority = Moq. |species = scoparia |authority = Moq. }}
'''''Henonia''''' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Henonia'' Moq. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1210-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=14 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref> It only contains one species, '''''Henonia scoparia'''''.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Henonia scoparia'' Moq. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60680-1 |access-date=25 September 2021}}</ref>
It is native to Madagascar,<ref name="POWO"/> where it is known as ''kifafalahy''.<ref name = iucn/>
==Description== ''Henonia scoparia'' is a shrub or small tree which grows from 1 to 2.5 meters tall. Flowers appear in March, and it fruits starting in November.<ref name = iucn/>
==Range and habitat== ''Henonia scoparia'' is endemic to southwestern Madagascar, in former Toliara Province. It is known from four herbarium specimens, with three known locations. Based on these collections, the species' estimated extent of occurrence (EOO) is 7,150 km<sup>2</sup>, and its area of occupancy (AOO) is 16 km<sup>2</sup>.<ref name = iucn/>
It is found in dry forest, bushland, dunes, and thickets in the Madagascar succulent woodlands and Madagascar spiny thickets ecoregions, between 100 and 520 meters elevation.<ref name = iucn/>
Little is known about the population size of the species. The species' native habitat is threatened with degradation by human activity.<ref name = iucn/>
==Name== The genus name of ''Henonia'' is in honour of Jacques-Louis Hénon (1802–1872), a French republican politician.<ref>{{cite book | last=Quattrocchi | first=Umberto | title=CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Volume II, D–L | publisher=CRC Press | location=Boca Raton, Florida | year=2000 | isbn=978-0-8493-2676-9}}</ref> The Latin specific epithet of ''scoparia'' refers to broom, from ''scopae''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Lewis | first=Charlton | title=An Elementary Latin Dictionary | publisher=Oxford University Press | location=Oxford | year=1891 | isbn=9780199102051}}</ref> It was first described and published in (A.P.de Candolle), Prodr. Vol.13 (Issue 2) on page 237 in 1849.<ref name="POWO" />
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Category:Amaranthaceae Category:Monotypic Amaranthaceae genera Category:Endemic flora of Madagascar Category:Flora of the Madagascar spiny thickets Category:Flora of the Madagascar succulent woodlands Category:Plants described in 1849