Achyranthes
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Amaranthaceae |
| Subfamily: | Amaranthoideae |
| Genus: | Achyranthes L. |
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Achyranthes is a genus of medicinal and ornamental plants in the amaranth family, Amaranthaceae. Chaff flower is a common name for plants in this genus. The Hawaiian species (A. divaricata, A. humile, and A. sandwicensis) are known in Hawaiian as kuluʻī.
A 2024 morphological and phylogenetic analysis by Vanessa Di Vincenzo et al. merged the genus Achyropsis and the Hawaiian genus Nototrichium into Achyranthes to make it monophyletic. The genus is characterized by solitary, fertile flowers.
Species
33 species are accepted.
- Achyranthes abyssinica Nees
- Achyranthes ancistrophora C.C.Towns.
- Achyranthes annua Dinter
- Achyranthes arborescens R.Br.
- Achyranthes aspera L. (= A. argentea) (Sanskrit : apamarg (अपामार्ग))
- Achyranthes atollensis (extinct)
- Achyranthes avicularis E.Mey. ex Moq.
- Achyranthes bidentata Blume (synonym Achyranthes japonica (Miq.) Nakai)
- Achyranthes borbonica Willd. ex Schult.
- Achyranthes coynei Santapau
- Achyranthes diandra Roxb.
- Achyranthes divaricata (Lorence) Di Vincenzo, Berends., Wondafr. & Borsch
- Achyranthes fasciculata (Suess.) C.C.Towns.
- Achyranthes fruticulosa (C.B.Clarke) Di Vincenzo, Berends., Wondafr. & Borsch
- Achyranthes graminiformis Di Vincenzo, Berends., Wondafr. & Borsch
- Achyranthes humilis (Hillebr.) Di Vincenzo, Berends., Wondafr. & Borsch
- Achyranthes laniceps (C.B.Clarke) Di Vincenzo, Berends., Wondafr. & Borsch
- Achyranthes leptostachya E.Mey. ex Meisn.
- Achyranthes mangarevica Suess.
- Achyranthes marchionica R.Br.
- Achyranthes margaretarum de Lange
- Achyranthes mauritiana Moq.
- Achyranthes mutica A.Gray ex H.Mann
- Achyranthes porphyrostachya Wall. ex Moq.
- Achyranthes sandwicensis (A.Gray) Di Vincenzo, Berends., Wondafr. & Borsch
- Achyranthes schinzii (Standl.) Cufod.
- Achyranthes seychellensis Sukhor.
- Achyranthes shahii M.R.Almeida & S.M.Almeida
- Achyranthes sicula (L.) All.
- Achyranthes splendens Mart. ex Moq.
- Achyranthes talbotii Hutch. & Dalziel
- Achyranthes velutina Hook. & Arn.
- Achyranthes viridis Lopr.
- Achyranthes viriditepala Di Vincenzo, Berends., Wondafr. & Borsch
References
- 1 2 "Achyranthes L." Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved 20 November 2025.
- 1 2 NRCS. "Achyranthes". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 7 January 2016.
- ↑ Pukui, Mary Kawena; Samuel H. Elbert (1986). Hawaiian dictionary: Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian. University of Hawaii Press. p. 183. ISBN 978-0-8248-0703-0.
- ↑ Di Vincenzo, V., Berendsohn, W., Wondafrash, M. and 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: 66-100. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.13284
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