Aerva lanata

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Aerva lanata

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Order [[]]
Family [[]]
Genus Aerva

2n =

Origin : area of origin

wild or cultivated


Uses summary


Description

  • 1, plant habit; 2, branchlet with young inflorescences; 3, flower; 4, opened staminal tube with stamens and staminodes (PROSEA, Achmad Satiri Nurhaman)

Popular names

Classification

Cultivars

History

Uses

Tropical Africa and Arabia. According to Grant[1], this plant is used on the Upper Nile as a pot-herb.

  1. ↑ Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. Pls. 465. 1879.
Sturtevant, Notes on edible plants, 1919.


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