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Nothosaerva
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Amaranthaceae
Subfamily: Amaranthoideae
Genus: Nothosaerva
Wight
Species:
N. brachiata
Binomial name
Nothosaerva brachiata
(L.) Wight
Synonyms [1] [2]
  • Pseudanthus Wight 1852, illegitimate homonym, not Pseudanthus Sieber ex A. Spreng. 1827 ( Picrodendraceae)
  • Achyranthes brachiata L.
  • Aerva brachiata (L.) Mart.
  • Aerva chenopodiifolia Bojer
  • Amaranthus minutus Lesch. ex Moq.
  • Illecebrum brachiatum (L.) L.
  • Pseudanthus brachiatus (L.) Wight

Nothosaerva is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae containing the single species Nothosaerva brachiata. It is native to India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, and eastern Africa. [3]

This species was first described in 1852 with the name Pseudanthus. [2] [4] This turned out to be an illegitimate homonym, so it was renamed Nothosaerva in 1853. [1] [5] [6]

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