# Pfaffia

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Genus of flowering plants

Pfaffia Pfaffia townsendii Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Clade: Embryophytes Clade: Tracheophytes Clade: Spermatophytes Clade: Angiosperms Clade: Eudicots Order: Caryophyllales Family: Amaranthaceae Subfamily: Gomphrenoideae Genus: Pfaffia Mart. Species See text. Synonyms[1] Sertuernera Mart.

***Pfaffia*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of plants in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Amaranthaceae](/source/Amaranthaceae).[1][2][3]

## Species

As of April 2022[\[update\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia&action=edit), [Plants of the World Online](/source/Plants_of_the_World_Online) accepted the following species:[1]

- *[Pfaffia acutifolia](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_acutifolia&action=edit&redlink=1)* (Moq.) O.Stützer

- *[Pfaffia aphylla](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_aphylla&action=edit&redlink=1)* Suess.

- *[Pfaffia argyrea](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_argyrea&action=edit&redlink=1)* Pedersen

- *[Pfaffia brunae](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_brunae&action=edit&redlink=1)* Marchior.

- *[Pfaffia cipoana](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_cipoana&action=edit&redlink=1)* Marchior., Miotto & J.C.Siqueira

- *[Pfaffia densipellita](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_densipellita&action=edit&redlink=1)* Borsch

- *[Pfaffia denudata](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_denudata&action=edit&redlink=1)* (Moq.) Kuntze

- *[Pfaffia elata](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_elata&action=edit&redlink=1)* R.E.Fr.

- *[Pfaffia eriocephala](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_eriocephala&action=edit&redlink=1)* Suess.

- *[Pfaffia fruticulosa](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_fruticulosa&action=edit&redlink=1)* Suess.

- *[Pfaffia glabrata](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_glabrata&action=edit&redlink=1)* Mart.

- *[Pfaffia gleasonii](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_gleasonii&action=edit&redlink=1)* Suess.

- *[Pfaffia glomerata](/source/Pfaffia_glomerata)* (Spreng.) Pedersen

- *[Pfaffia gnaphalioides](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_gnaphalioides&action=edit&redlink=1)* (L.f.) Mart.

- *[Pfaffia helichrysoides](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_helichrysoides&action=edit&redlink=1)* (Moq.) Kuntze

- *[Pfaffia hirtula](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_hirtula&action=edit&redlink=1)* Mart.

- *[Pfaffia iresinoides](/source/Pfaffia_iresinoides)* (Kunth) Spreng.

- *[Pfaffia jubata](/source/Pfaffia_jubata)* Mart.

- *[Pfaffia minarum](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_minarum&action=edit&redlink=1)* Pedersen

- *[Pfaffia miraflorensis](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_miraflorensis&action=edit&redlink=1)* Agudello & P.Franco

- *[Pfaffia ninae](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_ninae&action=edit&redlink=1)* Pedersen

- *[Pfaffia nudicaulis](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_nudicaulis&action=edit&redlink=1)* Suess.

- *[Pfaffia patiensis](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_patiensis&action=edit&redlink=1)* Agudelo

- *[Pfaffia rotundifolia](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_rotundifolia&action=edit&redlink=1)* Pedersen

- *[Pfaffia rupestris](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_rupestris&action=edit&redlink=1)* Marchior., Miotto & J.C.Siqueira

- *[Pfaffia sarcophylla](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_sarcophylla&action=edit&redlink=1)* Pedersen

- *[Pfaffia sericantha](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_sericantha&action=edit&redlink=1)* (Mart.) Pedersen

- *[Pfaffia siqueiriana](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_siqueiriana&action=edit&redlink=1)* Marchior. & Miotto

- *[Pfaffia tayronensis](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_tayronensis&action=edit&redlink=1)* Agudelo

- *[Pfaffia townsendii](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_townsendii&action=edit&redlink=1)* Pedersen

- *[Pfaffia tuberculosa](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_tuberculosa&action=edit&redlink=1)* Pedersen

- *[Pfaffia tuberosa](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_tuberosa&action=edit&redlink=1)* (Spreng.) Hicken

- *[Pfaffia velutina](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pfaffia_velutina&action=edit&redlink=1)* Mart.

## Former species

- *Pfaffia paniculata* - Suma root, Brazilian ginseng, now classified as *[Hebanthe erianthos](/source/Hebanthe_erianthos)*

## Footnotes

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-POWO_1261-1_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-POWO_1261-1_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-POWO_1261-1_1-2) ["*Pfaffia* Mart"](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1261-1). *Plants of the World Online*. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2022-04-10.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["*Pfaffia*"](https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=500479). [Integrated Taxonomic Information System](/source/Integrated_Taxonomic_Information_System).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [*Pfaffia*](https://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=PFAFF) at [USDA PLANTS Database](https://plants.usda.gov/)

Taxon identifiers Pfaffia Wikidata: Q7179767 Wikispecies: Pfaffia CoL: 6M9J EoL: 61633 EPPO: 1PFFG GBIF: 3084895 GRIN: 9188 iNaturalist: 273182 IPNI: 1261-1 IRMNG: 1321742 ITIS: 500479 NCBI: 221784 Open Tree of Life: 440734 PLANTS: PFAFF POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1261-1 Tropicos: 40005802 WFO: wfo-4000029013

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