{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Pfaffia townsendii.jpg |image_caption = ''Pfaffia townsendii'' |taxon = Pfaffia |authority = [[Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius|Mart.]] |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = See text. |synonyms = *''Sertuernera'' Mart. |synonyms_ref = <ref name="POWO_1261-1">{{cite web |title=''Pfaffia'' Mart. |work=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1261-1 |access-date=2022-04-10 }}</ref> }}

'''''Pfaffia''''' is a [[genus]] of plants in the [[Family (taxonomy)|family]] [[Amaranthaceae]].<ref name=POWO_1261-1/><ref>{{ITIS |id=500479 |taxon=''Pfaffia''}}</ref><ref>[https://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=PFAFF ''Pfaffia''] at [https://plants.usda.gov/ USDA PLANTS Database]</ref>

==Species== {{As of|2022|April}}, [[Plants of the World Online]] accepted the following species:<ref name=POWO_1261-1/> {{Div col|colwidth=20em}} *''[[Pfaffia acutifolia]]'' <small>(Moq.) O.Stützer</small> *''[[Pfaffia aphylla]]'' <small>Suess.</small> *''[[Pfaffia argyrea]]'' <small>Pedersen</small> *''[[Pfaffia brunae]]'' <small>Marchior.</small> *''[[Pfaffia cipoana]]'' <small>Marchior., Miotto & J.C.Siqueira</small> *''[[Pfaffia densipellita]]'' <small>Borsch</small> *''[[Pfaffia denudata]]'' <small>(Moq.) Kuntze</small> *''[[Pfaffia elata]]'' <small>R.E.Fr.</small> *''[[Pfaffia eriocephala]]'' <small>Suess.</small> *''[[Pfaffia fruticulosa]]'' <small>Suess.</small> *''[[Pfaffia glabrata]]'' <small>Mart.</small> *''[[Pfaffia gleasonii]]'' <small>Suess.</small> *''[[Pfaffia glomerata]]'' <small>(Spreng.) Pedersen</small> *''[[Pfaffia gnaphalioides]]'' <small>(L.f.) Mart.</small> *''[[Pfaffia helichrysoides]]'' <small>(Moq.) Kuntze</small> *''[[Pfaffia hirtula]]'' <small>Mart.</small> *''[[Pfaffia iresinoides]]'' <small>(Kunth) Spreng.</small> *''[[Pfaffia jubata]]'' <small>Mart.</small> *''[[Pfaffia minarum]]'' <small>Pedersen</small> *''[[Pfaffia miraflorensis]]'' <small>Agudello & P.Franco</small> *''[[Pfaffia ninae]]'' <small>Pedersen</small> *''[[Pfaffia nudicaulis]]'' <small>Suess.</small> *''[[Pfaffia patiensis]]'' <small>Agudelo</small> *''[[Pfaffia rotundifolia]]'' <small>Pedersen</small> *''[[Pfaffia rupestris]]'' <small>Marchior., Miotto & J.C.Siqueira</small> *''[[Pfaffia sarcophylla]]'' <small>Pedersen</small> *''[[Pfaffia sericantha]]'' <small>(Mart.) Pedersen</small> *''[[Pfaffia siqueiriana]]'' <small>Marchior. & Miotto</small> *''[[Pfaffia tayronensis]]'' <small>Agudelo</small> *''[[Pfaffia townsendii]]'' <small>Pedersen</small> *''[[Pfaffia tuberculosa]]'' <small>Pedersen</small> *''[[Pfaffia tuberosa]]'' <small>(Spreng.) Hicken</small> *''[[Pfaffia velutina]]'' <small>Mart.</small> {{Div col end}}

== Former species == *''Pfaffia paniculata'' - Suma root, Brazilian ginseng, now classified as ''[[Hebanthe erianthos]]''

==Footnotes== {{Reflist}}

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[[Category:Amaranthaceae]] [[Category:Amaranthaceae genera]] [[Category:Taxa named by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius]]

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