2317.000 Aerva Forssk.

Description of the genus

Perennial herbs. Leaves alternate. Inflorescences consisting of axillary and terminal bracteate spikes, these densely white-woolly. Modified sterile flowers 0. Flowers bisexual or unisexual. Tepals 5 with membranous margins and a green centre, densely lanate on the back, deciduous with the seed. Stamens 5. Ovule 1. Stigmas 2. Capsule splitting irregularly.

Worldwide: 10 species in tropical and warm areas of the Old World

DRC: 2 taxa.

No image yet

Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

Species	Botanical divisions	Content
lanata (L.) Juss. ex Schult.		Description, Image
leucura Moq.		Description, Image

Other sources of information about Aerva:

Our websites:

Flora of Botswana: Aerva
Flora of Burundi: Aerva
Flora of Caprivi: Aerva
Flora of Malawi: Aerva
Flora of Mozambique: Aerva
Flora of Rwanda: Aerva
Flora of Zambia: Aerva
Flora of Zimbabwe: Aerva

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Aerva
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Aerva
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Aerva
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Aerva
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Aerva
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Aerva
JSTOR Plant Science: Aerva
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Aerva
Plants of the World Online: Aerva
Tropicos: Aerva
Wikipedia: Aerva