Aerva

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Amaranthaceae s.l.
Cladus: Amaranthaceae s.str.
Subfamilia: Amaranthoideae
Genus: Aerva
Species: A. javanica
Name

Aerva Forssk., Fl. Aegypt.-Arab. 170. (1775)

Type: Aerva tomentosa Forssk. (= synonym of Aerva javanica)

According to Hammer et al. 2019, Aerva is now considered monotypic. See genera Ouret and Paraerva for species formerly placed here.
References
Primary references

Forsskål, P. (†). 1775. Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica. Sive descriptiones plantarum, quas per Aegyptum inferiorem et Arabiam felicem detexit, illustravit Petrus Forskål. Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Ex officina Mölleri, Hauniae [Copenhagen]. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.41 BHL Reference page. : 170

Additional references

Hammer, T.A., Zhong, X., Colas des Francs-Small, C., Nevill, P.G., Small, I.D. & Thiele, K.R. 2019. Resolving intergeneric relationships in the aervoid clade and the backbone of Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae): Evidence from whole plastid genomes and morphology. Taxon 68(2): 297–314. DOI: 10.1002/tax.12054 Reference page.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Aerva in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Sept. 10. Reference page. (species list not yet updated)
Hassler, M. 2019. Aerva. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Sept. 10. Reference page. (species list not yet updated)
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Aerva. Published online. Accessed: Sept. 10 2019.
Tropicos.org 2019. Aerva. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 10 Sept. 2019. (species list not yet updated)

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 southeast Asia.[3][4] Aerva javanica is an alien in northern Australia.[5]

At least four species in the genus have acquired the C4 carbon fixation pathway.[6][7]

Selected species

List of species within the genus sensu Thiv et al. (2006)[3] & Hammer et al. (2017):[8]

Aerva congesta Balf. f.
Aerva coriacea Schinz
Aerva glabrata Hook. f.
Aerva humbertii Cavaco
Aerva javanica (Burm.f.) Schult.
Aerva lanata (L.) Juss. ex Schult.
Aerva leucura Moq.
Aerva microphylla Moq.
Aerva revoluta Balf.f.
Aerva sanguinolenta (L.) Blume
Aerva triangularifolia Cavaco

Taxa in synonymy

Aerva artemisioides Vierh. & O.Schwartz ≡ Wadithamnus artemisioides (Vierh. & O.Schwartz) T.Hammer & R.W.Davis[9]

References

"Aerva Forssk". International Plant Names Index. Plant Names Project. Retrieved 2017-01-21.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. "Amaranthaceae by C. C. Townsend". Flora Zambesiaca. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 9 (part:1). Retrieved 2008-04-29.
Thiv, Mike; Thulin, Mats; Kilian, Norbert; Linder, H. Peter (2006). "Eritreo-Arabian Affinities of the Socotran Flora as Revealed from the Molecular Phylogeny of Aerva (Amaranthaceae)". Systematic Botany. 31 (3): 560–570. doi:10.1600/036364406778388683.
Flora of Pakistan. "Aerva Forssk". Retrieved 2008-04-28.
"Aerva javanica (Burm.f.) Schult. Kapok Bush". FloraBase. 14 August 2007. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
Sage, R.F.; Sage, T.L.; Pearcy, R.W.; Borsch, T. (2007). "The taxonomic distribution of C4 photosynthesis in Amaranthaceae sensu stricto". American Journal of Botany. 94 (12): 1992–2003. doi:10.3732/ajb.94.12.1992. ISSN 0002-9122. PMID 21636394. open access
Sage, R.F. (2016). "A portrait of the C4 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. doi:10.1093/jxb/erw156. ISSN 0022-0957. PMID 27053721. open access
Hammer, Timothy A.; Davis, Robert W.; Thiele, Kevin R. (2017). "Wadithamnus, a new monotypic genus in Amaranthaceae". Phytotaxa. 295 (2): 173–184. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.295.2.5.
"Wadithamnus". International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 19 February 2017.