Noaea
Noaea | |
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Description de l'Égypte (Pl. 21) Salsola echinus. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Caryophyllales |
Family: | Amaranthaceae |
Genus: | Noaea Moq. |
Noaea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae.[1] It is in the Salsoloideae subfamily.
Its native range is from the southern and eastern Mediterranean to Pakistan. It is found in Afghanistan, Algeria, Crete, Cyprus, East Aegean Islands, Egypt (including Sinai Peninsula,), Greece, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, North Caucasus region, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Transcaucasus region (Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan), Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.[1]
The genus name of Noaea is in honour of François Thomas "Frank", Marquis De Noé (1806–1887), a French author on North African Lamiaceae.[2] It was first described and published in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. Vol.13 (Issue 2) on page 207 in 1849.[1]
Known species
According to Kew:[1]
- Noaea cadmea Yild.
- Noaea kurdica Eig
- Noaea major Bunge
- Noaea minuta Boiss. & Balansa
- Noaea mucronata (Forssk.) Asch. & Schweinf.
- Noaea tournefortii (Spach) Moq.
References
- ^ a b c d "Noaea Moq. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
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- Amaranthaceae
- Amaranthaceae genera
- Plants described in 1849
- Flora of Crete
- Flora of Greece
- Flora of North Africa
- Flora of Central Asia
- Flora of the Caucasus
- Flora of Western Asia