{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = |image_caption = |taxon = Pedersenia |authority = Holub |synonyms = ''Trommsdorffia'' <small>Mart.</small> }} '''''Pedersenia''''' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Pedersenia'' Holub {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1002674-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=24 March 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
Its native range is mainland tropical America, from Honduras to Paraguay, and Puerto Rico and the Windward Islands.<ref name="POWO" />
The genus name of ''Pedersenia'' is in honour of Troels Myndel Pedersen (1916–2000), a Danish-born Argentinian botanist with a large herbarium and also specialist in Amaranthaceae.<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 Preslia Vol.70 on page 181 in 1998.<ref name="POWO"/>
==Known species== According to Kew:<ref name="POWO" /> *''Pedersenia argentata'' {{small|(Mart.) Holub}} *''Pedersenia cardenasii'' {{small|(Standl.) Holub}} *''Pedersenia completa'' {{small|(Uline & W.L.Bray) Borsch}} *''Pedersenia costaricensis'' {{small|(Standl.) Holub}} *''Pedersenia hassleriana'' {{small|(Chodat) Pedersen}} *''Pedersenia macrophylla'' {{small|(R.E.Fr.) Holub}} *''Pedersenia volubilis'' {{small|Borsch, T.Ortuño & M.Nee}} *''Pedersenia weberbaueri'' {{small|(Suess.) Holub}}
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Category:Amaranthaceae genera Category:Plants described in 1998 Category:Flora of Central America Category:Flora of Puerto Rico Category:Flora of the Windward Islands Category:Flora of northern South America Category:Flora of western South America Category:Flora of Brazil Category:Flora of Paraguay Category:Amaranthaceae
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