Code
AERLA
Growth form
Shrub
Biological cycle
Perennial
Habitat
Terrestrial
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Achyranthes lanata L. |
| synonym | Achyranthes pubescens (Willd.) Roth |
| synonym | Achyranthes villosa Forssk. |
| synonym | Aerva arachnoidea Gand. |
| synonym | Aerva elegans Moq. |
| synonym | Aerva floribunda Wight |
| synonym | Aerva lanata (L.) Juss. ex Schult. |
| synonym | Aerva mozambicensis Gand. |
| synonym | Aerva pubescens Mart. |
| synonym | Aerva sansibarica Suess. |
| synonym | Aerva tandalo Buch.-Ham. ex Dill. |
| synonym | Aerva viridis E.Mey. ex Moq. |
| synonym | Alternanthera pubescens Moq. |
| synonym | Amaranthus aeruoides Hochst. & Steud. ex A.Rich. |
| synonym | Amaranthus lanatus Dum.Cours. |
| synonym | Illecebrum lanatum (L.) L. |
| synonym | Illecebrum pubescens Willd. |
| synonym | Ouret lanata (L.) Kuntze |
| synonym | Paronychia lanata (L.) Moench |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Global description
Aerva lanata is a dicotyledonous, woody shrubby, measuring from 30 cm to 50 cm height, whose habit is erect. The stem is branched and covered with a whitish felting. The leaves are simple alternate, with very short petiole, with obovate blade (1 - 4 cm). The lower side is covered with a whitish woolly felting. The upper side is less woolly. The inflorescence is axillary and forms glomerules or false erect spikes. The flower has neither sepals nor differentiated petals, but 5 white tepals. It is whitish woolly. The fruit is a circular and compressed capsule with kidney-shaped, black, shiny seed.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
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📚 Natural History
Life Cycle
Central Afrique: Aerva lanata flowers and fruits all year round.
Mayotte: Aerva lanata flowers and fruits all year round. But in crops it grows mainly during the rainy season.
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Ecology
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Central Africa: Aerva lanata is a very common and ubiquitous plant, in savannahs, riverbanks, gallery forests, clearings, as well as in crops and plantations (sometimes invasive), uncultivated places in villages, lateritic slabs, up to 1700 m altitude.
Mayotte: Aerva lanata is a common cryptogenic species in a wide range of natural and degraded environments, especially in food, pineapple and ylang-tree crops.
South Africa: Aerva lanata grows along rivers, at the edge of ponds.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
Description
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Origin
Aerva lanata is native to tropical Africa, and East Africa, some islands of the Indian Ocean (Madagascar, Comoros, Mayotte), the Arabian Peninsula, India and Indonesia.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
Risk Statement
Local harmfulness
Mayotte: Aerva lanata is an infrequent weed, present in 5% of cultivated plots, more particularly in the rainy zone of the north of the island. It occurs mainly in food crops, pineapple and ylang plantations.
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📚 Uses and Management
Uses
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Food: The leaves of Aerva lanata are edible for humans and livestock.
Medicinal: In Mayotte, the whole plant of Aerva lanata is used in infusion against the miscarriages and against the female sterility.
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📚 Information Listing
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References
- Huat, J., Nagy, M., Carpente, A., Schwartz, M., Le Bourgeois, T. & Marnotte, P. 2021. Guide de la flore spontanée des agrosystèmes de Mayotte. Montpellier, Cirad. 150 p.
- Barthelat, F. 2019. La Flore illustrée de Mayotte. Meze, Paris, France, Collection Inventaires et Biodiversité, Biotope – Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. 687 p.
- Plants of the World Online https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:61673-1
- The World Flora Online http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000521764
Information Listing > References
- Huat, J., Nagy, M., Carpente, A., Schwartz, M., Le Bourgeois, T. & Marnotte, P. 2021. Guide de la flore spontanée des agrosystèmes de Mayotte. Montpellier, Cirad. 150 p.
- Barthelat, F. 2019. La Flore illustrée de Mayotte. Meze, Paris, France, Collection Inventaires et Biodiversité, Biotope – Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. 687 p.
- Plants of the World Online https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:61673-1
- The World Flora Online http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000521764
Images
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Caryophyllales |
| Family | Amaranthaceae |
| Genus | Aerva |
| Species | Aerva lanata (L.) Juss. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
📷 Related Observations
