Aerva Explained

Aerva is a genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae. Its species are native to the palaeotropics, throughout continental Africa, Madagascar and smaller islands (Mauritius and Socotra), through parts of the Middle East, India, and southeast Asia.^[1] Aerva javanica is an alien in northern Australia.^[2]

At least four species in the genus have acquired the carbon fixation pathway.^{[3] [4]}

Species

Six species are accepted.^[5]

• Aerva javanica – northern and eastern Africa, Madagascar, Arabian Peninsula and west Asia, Indian subcontinent, and Myanmar
• Aerva madagassica – Madagascar
• Aerva radicans – India
• Aerva sericea – Hawaiian Islands (extinct)
• Aerva villosa – Mauritius
• Aerva wightii – India

Formerly placed here

• Ouret lanata (as Aerva lanata)
• Paraerva microphylla (as Aerva microphylla)
• Paraerva revoluta (as Aerva revoluta)
• Wadithamnus artemisioides (as Aerva artemisioides)^{[6] [7]}

External links

• • Web site: Aerva . 2008-04-28 . T.D. Macfarlane, FloraBase: Flora of Western Australia . Western Australian Herbarium . 2007-09-06 . Flora Descriptions . Government of Western Australia.
• Web site: 2317.000 Aerva Forssk. . 2008-04-20 . Mark Hyde and Bart Wursten . August 2007 . Flora of Mozambique.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Flora of Pakistan . Aerva Forssk. . Flora of Pakistan . 2008-04-28.
2. Web site: Aerva javanica (Burm.f.) Schult. Kapok Bush. 14 August 2007. FloraBase. 21 January 2017.
3. Sage . R.F. . Sage . T.L. . Pearcy . R.W. . Borsch . T. . The taxonomic distribution of photosynthesis in Amaranthaceae sensu stricto. American Journal of Botany . 94 . 12 . 2007 . 1992–2003 . 0002-9122 . 10.3732/ajb.94.12.1992. 21636394 .
4. Sage . R.F. . 2016 . A portrait of the photosynthetic family on the 50th anniversary of its discovery: species number, evolutionary lineages, and Hall of Fame . Journal of Experimental Botany . 67 . 14 . 4039–4056 . 10.1093/jxb/erw156 . 0022-0957 . 27053721. free .
5. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331324-2 Aerva Forssk.
6. Web site: Wadithamnus. International Plant Names Index. 19 February 2017.
7. Hammer. Timothy A.. Davis. Robert W.. Thiele. Kevin R.. 2017. Wadithamnus, a new monotypic genus in Amaranthaceae. Phytotaxa. 295. 2. 173–184. 10.11646/phytotaxa.295.2.5.