''Aerva'' is a genus of

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s in the family

Amaranthaceae Amaranthaceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the amaranth family, in reference to its type genus '' Amaranthus''. It includes the former goosefoot family Chenopodiaceae and contains about 165 genera and 2,040 species, making i ...

. Its species are native to the palaeotropics, throughout continental

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and smaller islands (

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), through parts of the Middle East, India, and southeast Asia. ''Aerva javanica'' is an alien in northern Australia. At least four species in the genus have acquired the carbon fixation pathway.

Selected species

List of species within the genus ''sensu'' Thiv ''et al.'' (2006) & Hammer ''et al.'' (2017): * ''

Aerva congesta ''Aerva congesta'', the Mascarene amaranth, is a small herbaceous plant of the genus ''Aerva''. Range It is restricted to the island of Mauritius although it was formally found on Rodrigues Rodrigues (french: Île Rodrigues, link=yes ; Cr ...

'' Balf. f. * ''

Aerva coriacea ''Aerva'' is a genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae. Its species are native to the palaeotropics, throughout continental Africa, Madagascar and smaller islands (Rodrigues, Mauritius, Socotra), through parts of the Middle East, India, and s ...

'' Schinz * ''

Aerva glabrata ''Aerva'' is a genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae. Its species are native to the palaeotropics, throughout continental Africa, Madagascar and smaller islands (Rodrigues, Mauritius, Socotra), through parts of the Middle East, India, and s ...

'' Hook. f. * ''

Aerva humbertii ''Aerva'' is a genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae. Its species are native to the palaeotropics, throughout continental Africa, Madagascar and smaller islands (Rodrigues, Mauritius, Socotra), through parts of the Middle East, India, and s ...

'' Cavaco * '' Aerva javanica'' (Burm.f.) Schult. * '' Aerva lanata'' (L.) Juss. ex Schult. * ''

Aerva leucura ''Aerva'' is a genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae. Its species are native to the palaeotropics, throughout continental Africa, Madagascar and smaller islands (Rodrigues, Mauritius, Socotra), through parts of the Middle East, India, and s ...

'' Moq. * ''

Aerva microphylla ''Aerva microphylla'' is a species of plant in the family Amaranthaceae. It is endemic to the Socotra archipelago off the coast of East Africa East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East of Africa, is the eastern subregion of the African con ...

Moq. Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon (7 May 1804 – 15 April 1863) was a French naturalist and doctor. Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director ...

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Aerva revoluta ''Aerva revoluta'' is a species of plant in the family Amaranthaceae. It is endemic to the archipelago of Socotra, biogeographically part of East Africa, and politically part of Yemen across the Red Sea The Red Sea ( ar, البحر الأ� ...

Balf.f. Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, KBE, FRS, FRSE (31 March 1853 – 30 November 1922) was a Scottish botanist. He was Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow from 1879 to 1885, Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxf ...

* ''

Aerva sanguinolenta ''Aerva'' is a genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae. Its species are native to the palaeotropics, throughout continental Africa, Madagascar and smaller islands (Rodrigues, Mauritius, Socotra), through parts of the Middle East, India, and s ...

'' (L.) Blume * ''

Aerva triangularifolia ''Aerva'' is a genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae. Its species are native to the palaeotropics, throughout continental Africa, Madagascar and smaller islands (Rodrigues, Mauritius, Socotra), through parts of the Middle East, India, and s ...

'' Cavaco

Taxa in synonymy

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Aerva artemisioides ''Aerva'' is a genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae. Its species are native to the palaeotropics, throughout continental Africa, Madagascar and smaller islands (Rodrigues, Mauritius, Socotra), through parts of the Middle East, India, and s ...

'' Vierh. & O.Schwartz ≡ ''

Wadithamnus artemisioides ''Wadithamnus'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae. Its native range is the Arabian Peninsula The Arabian Peninsula, (; ar, شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّة, , "Arabian Pe ...

'' (Vierh. & O.Schwartz) T.Hammer & R.W.Davis

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* * Amaranthaceae genera Taxa named by Peter Forsskål Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Amaranthaceae-stub