''Seidlitzia'' a genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of ...

s belonging to 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 ...

. It is also in the

Salsoloideae The Salsoloideae are a subfamily of the Amaranthaceae, formerly in family Chenopodiaceae. Description These are herbs, subshrubs, shrubs and some trees. Stems and leaves are often succulent. The ovary contains a spiral embryo. In most genera ...

subfamily. Its native range is from

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Med ...

, Central Asia (within Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Sinai, Syria, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan,) to

Western Himalayas The Western Himalayas refers to the western half of the Himalayas, in northern Pakistan and northwestern India. It is also known as the Punjab Himalayas. Four of the five tributaries of the Indus River in Punjab ( Beas, Chenab, Jhelum, and Ravi ...

and

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...

India India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the ...

and the Arabian Peninsula (within the Gulf States, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and

Socotra Socotra or Soqotra (; ar, سُقُطْرَىٰ ; so, Suqadara) is an island of the Republic of Yemen in the Indian Ocean, under the ''de facto'' control of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, a secessionist participant in Yemen� ...

). The genus name of ''Seidlitzia'' is in honour of Nikolai Karl Samuel von Seidlitz (1831–1907), a Baltic German botanist and statistician. It was first described and published in Fl. Orient. Vol.4 on page 950 in 1879.

Known species

Accepted species by Kew include:

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q10369482 Amaranthaceae genera Plants described in 1879 Flora of Egypt Flora of the Transcaucasus Flora of Western Asia Flora of the Arabian Peninsula Flora of Pakistan Flora of West Himalaya Flora of India (region) Amaranthaceae