Aerva

Aerva
Aerva lanata var rotundifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Subfamily: Amaranthoideae
Genus: Aerva[1]
Forssk.
Synonyms

Ouret Adans.[2] Aerua (orth. var.)

Aerva is a genus of plant in family Amaranthaceae.

Contents

Selected species

Compiled from several different lists:[3][4][5][6][1]

Distribution

Found in the tropics, mostly in continental Africa, Madagascar and smaller islands (Rodrigues, Mauritius, Socotra).[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "Aerva Forssk.". African Plants Database. South African National Biodiversity Institute, the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and Tela Botanica. http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/bd/africa/genre.php?langue=an&id=1738. Retrieved 2008-04-27. 
  2. ^ Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. "Amaranthaceae by C. C. Townsend". Flora Zambesiaca (Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) 9 (part:1). http://apps.kew.org/efloras/namedetail.do?qry=namelist&flora=fz&taxon=6602&nameid=16766. Retrieved 2008-0. 
  3. ^ UniProt. "Genus Aerva". http://beta.uniprot.org/taxonomy/240008. Retrieved 2008-04-28. 
  4. ^ Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) (2007-10-05). "Genus: Aerva Forssk.". Taxonomy for Plants. USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?242. Retrieved 2008-04-27. 
  5. ^ "Aerva". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=20761. Retrieved 27 April 2008. 
  6. ^ "Aerva". Madagascar Catalogue (Flora of North America). http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=12&taxon_id=100701. Retrieved 2008-04-28. 
  7. ^ Flora of Pakistan. "Aerva Forssk.". http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=100701. Retrieved 2008-04-28. 

External links

Data related to Aerva at Wikispecies