{{Short description|Genus of flowering plant}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Description de l'Égypte (Pl. 21) Salsola echinus.jpg |image_caption =Description de l'Égypte (Pl. 21) Salsola echinus. |taxon = Noaea |authority = Moq. }}
'''''Noaea''''' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Noaea'' Moq. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:6941-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=18 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref> It is in the Salsoloideae subfamily.
Its native range is from the southern and eastern Mediterranean to Pakistan. It is found in Afghanistan, Algeria, Crete, Cyprus, East Aegean Islands, Egypt (including Sinai Peninsula,), Greece, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, North Caucasus region, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Transcaucasus region (Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan), Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.<ref name="POWO" />
The genus name of ''Noaea'' is in honour of François Thomas "Frank", Marquis De Noé (1806–1887), a French author on North African Lamiaceae.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 | s2cid=187926901 |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref> It was first described and published in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. Vol.13 (Issue 2) on page 207 in 1849.<ref name="POWO"/>
==Known species== According to Kew:<ref name="POWO" /> *''Noaea cadmea'' {{small|Yild.}} *''Noaea kurdica'' {{small|Eig}} *''Noaea major'' {{small|Bunge}} *''Noaea minuta'' {{small|Boiss. & Balansa}} *''Noaea mucronata'' {{small|(Forssk.) Asch. & Schweinf.}} *''Noaea tournefortii'' {{small|(Spach) Moq.}}
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Category:Amaranthaceae Category:Amaranthaceae genera Category:Plants described in 1849 Category:Flora of Crete Category:Flora of Greece Category:Flora of North Africa Category:Flora of Central Asia Category:Flora of the Caucasus Category:Flora of Western Asia