Akhania

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Akhania
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Akhania daghestanica
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Subfamily: Salsoloideae
Tribe: Caroxyleae
Genus: Akhania
Sukhor. (2022)
Species [1]

Akhania is a genus of flowering plants in the amaranth family, Amaranthaceae. It includes three species native to the eastern Mediterranean and western and central Asia, ranging from Greece through western Asia to the Caucasus, Kazakhstan, and Afghanistan. [1]

Akhania includes small shrubs or subshrubs 20 to 100 cm tall. The plants have a bushy habit, with several or numerous stems, small linear or broadly lanceolate leaves which are bright green, glaucous, or grayish and 5–35 mm long by 1–3 mm wide. [2]

The genus Akhania is named after the Iranian botanist Hossein Akhani. Its species were formerly placed in the genera Salsola or Caroxylon . A genetic and morphological analysis concluded that the three species formed a distinct clade which is sister to Caroxylon. [2]

Species

Three species are accepted: [1] [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Akhania Sukhor. Plants of the World Online . Retrieved 30 March 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 Sukhorukov AP, Fedorova AV, Kushunina M, Mavrodiev EV (2022). Akhania, a new genus for Salsola daghestanica, Caroxylon canescens and C. carpathum (Salsoloideae, Chenopodiaceae, Amaranthaceae). PhytoKeys 211: 45-61. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.211.89408