Aerva lanata

Aerva lanata

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

Uses

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

Sturtevant, Notes on edible plants, 1919.

Links

• BHL
• FAO Ecocrop
• Feedipedia
• Grieve's herbal
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• Mansfeld
• Moerman, Native American Ethnobotany
• Multilingual Plant Name Database
• NewCrop Purdue
• Plant List
• Plants for a future
• PROSEA on Pl@ntUse
• PROTA on Pl@ntUse
• Tela Botanica
• Useful Tropical Plants Database
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