Achyranthes

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caryophyllales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Diaphoretickes Cladus: CAM Cladus: Archaeplastida Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Ordo: Caryophyllales

Achyranthes L., Sp. Pl. 1: 204 (1753).

nom. cons., see Taxon 44: 611–612 (1995).
Type species (Lectotype): Achyranthes aspera L., typ. cons.
- Lectotype designated by Hitchcock 1927. International Botanical Congress Cambridge (England), 1930. Nomenclature. Proposals by British Botanists: 114-1555; see also Jarvis, Taxon 41: 55 (1992)

Homotypic
- Stachyarpagophora Vaill. ex M.Gómez in Anales Inst. Segunda Enseñ. 2: 312. 1896
  - Type species: Achyranthes aspera L., nom. cons. (typ. cons.) (≡ Stachyarpagophora aspera (L.) M.Gómez).
Heterotypic
- Centrostachys Wall. in Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. 2: 497. 1824
  - Type species: Centrostachys aquatica (R.Br.) Wall.
- Amorgine Raf., New Fl. 4: 44. 1838 (“1836”)
  - Type species: Amorgine albescens Raf.
- Achyranthes sect. Achyropsis Moq. in Candolle, Prodr. 13(2): 310. 1849
  Achyropsis (Moq.) Hook.f. in Bentham & Hooker, Gen. Pl. 3(1): 36. (1880)
  - Type species (designated by Cavaco in Mém. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., B, Bot. 13: 149. 1962): Achyropsis leptostachya (E.Mey. ex Meisn.) Hook.f.
- Nototrichium Hillebr., Fl. Hawaiian Isl.: 372. 1888
  - Type species (designated by Iamonico in Phytotaxa 350(2): 150. 2018): Nototrichium viride Hillebr.

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Hillebrand, W. (†). 1888. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands: a description of their phanerogams and vascular cryptogams. London: Williams & Norgate; New York: B. Westermann & Co.; Heidelberg: Carl Winter. BHL Reference page.
Moquin-Tandon, A. 1849. Amarantaceae. In: De Candolle, A.P. (ed.): Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis 13(2): 231–424. Masson, Paris. BHL. Reference page.

Di Vincenzo, V., Berendsohn, W., Wondafrash, M. & Borsch, T. 2025. Phylogenetics and morphological character evolution in the achyranthoid clade (Amaranthaceae): Evidence to re-circumscribe the genera Achyranthes and Cyathula and to resurrect a third species of the former genus Sericocomopsis in East Africa. Taxon 74(1): 66–100. DOI: 10.1002/tax.13284 Reference page.
Sukhorukov, A.P., Kushunina, M., Nilova, M.V., Baider, C. & Sennikov, A.N. 2024. Africa and Arabia encompass a much greater species diversity in the Achyranthes aspera aggregate (Amaranthaceae, achyranthoid clade): Evidence from morphological and chorological data. PhytoKeys 250: 21–94. DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.250.136139, BHL Reference page.

Govaerts, R. et al. 2025. Achyranthes in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2025 Nov. 21. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2025. Achyranthes. Published online. Accessed: Nov. 21 2025. Reference page.