Aerva

Taxobox

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image_width = 260px
image_caption = "Aerva lanata" var "rotundifolia"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Caryophyllales
familia = Amaranthaceae
subfamilia = Amaranthoideae
genus = "Aerva"cite web
url = http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/bd/africa/genre.php?langue=an&id=1738
title = "Aerva" Forssk.
accessdate = 2008-04-27
format = HTML
work = African Plants Database
publisher = South African National Biodiversity Institute, the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and Tela Botanica ]
genus_authority = Forssk.
synonyms = "Ouret" Adans.cite journal
url = http://apps.kew.org/efloras/namedetail.do?qry=namelist&flora=fz&taxon=6602&nameid=16766
title = Amaranthaceae by C. C. Townsend
volume =9
issue =part:1
accessdate = 2008-0
author = Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
authorlink = Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
format = HTML
journal = Flora Zambesiaca
publisher = Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ]

"Aerva" is a genus of plant in family Amaranthaceae.

elected species

Compiled from several different lists:cite web
url = http://beta.uniprot.org/taxonomy/240008
title = Genus Aerva
accessdate = 2008-04-28
author = UniProt
authorlink = UniProt
format = HTML] cite web
url = http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?242
title = Genus: "Aerva" Forssk.
accessdate = 2008-04-27
author = Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)
authorlink = Germplasm Resources Information Network
date = 2007-10-05
format = HTML
work = Taxonomy for Plants
publisher = USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland ] ITIS|ID=20761|taxon="Aerva" |year=2008|date=27 April] cite journal
title = Aerva
journal =Madagascar Catalogue
publisher =Flora of North America
url =http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=12&taxon_id=100701
accessdate = 2008-04-28 ]
* "Aerva artemisioides"
* "Aerva congesta"
* "Aerva coriacea" Schinz
* "Aerva humbertii" Cavaco
* "Aerva javanica"(Burman f.) A. L. Juss. ex Schultes
* "Aerva lanata" (L.) A. L. Juss. ex Schultes
* "Aerva leucura" Moq.
* "Aerva madagassica" Suess.
* "Aerva microphylla" Moq.
* "Aerva revoluta" Balf.f.
* "Aerva sericea" Moq. -- island puzzle
* "Aerva sanguinolenta" (L.) Blume
* "Aerva transvaalensis" Gand.
* "Aerva triangularifolia" Cavaco

Distribution

Found in the tropics, mostly in continental Africa, Madagascar and smaller islands (Rodrigues, Mauritius, Socotra).cite web
author =Flora of Pakistan
url =http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=100701
authorlink =Flora of North America
title = "Aerva" Forssk.
accessdate = 2008-04-28 ]

References

External links

*cite web
url = http://florabase.calm.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/21380
title = "Aerva"
accessdate = 2008-04-28
author =T.D. Macfarlane, FloraBase: Flora of Western Australia
authorlink = Western Australian Herbarium
date = 2007-09-06.
format = HTML
work = Flora Descriptions
publisher = Government of Western Australia
*cite web
url = http://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=531
title = 2317.000 Aerva Forssk.
accessdate = 2008-04-20
author = Mark Hyde and Bart Wursten
date = 2007-08
format = HTML
work = Flora of Mozambique