Pfaffia

Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Pfaffia

Pfaffia townsendii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Order:  | Caryophyllales
Family:  | Amaranthaceae
Subfamily:  | Gomphrenoideae
Genus:  | Pfaffia
Mart.
Species

See text.

Synonyms[1]

* Sertuernera Mart.

Pfaffia is a genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae.[1][2][3]

## Species

(As of April 2022), Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:[1]

* Pfaffia acutifolia (Moq.) O.Stützer
* Pfaffia aphylla Suess.
* Pfaffia argyrea Pedersen
* Pfaffia brunae Marchior.
* Pfaffia cipoana Marchior., Miotto & J.C.Siqueira
* Pfaffia densipellita Borsch
* Pfaffia denudata (Moq.) Kuntze
* Pfaffia elata R.E.Fr.
* Pfaffia eriocephala Suess.
* Pfaffia fruticulosa Suess.
* Pfaffia glabrata Mart.
* Pfaffia gleasonii Suess.
* Pfaffia glomerata (Spreng.) Pedersen
* Pfaffia gnaphalioides (L.f.) Mart.
* Pfaffia helichrysoides (Moq.) Kuntze
* Pfaffia hirtula Mart.
* Pfaffia iresinoides (Kunth) Spreng.
* Pfaffia jubata Mart.
* Pfaffia minarum Pedersen
* Pfaffia miraflorensis Agudello & P.Franco
* Pfaffia ninae Pedersen
* Pfaffia nudicaulis Suess.
* Pfaffia patiensis Agudelo
* Pfaffia rotundifolia Pedersen
* Pfaffia rupestris Marchior., Miotto & J.C.Siqueira
* Pfaffia sarcophylla Pedersen
* Pfaffia sericantha (Mart.) Pedersen
* Pfaffia siqueiriana Marchior. & Miotto
* Pfaffia tayronensis Agudelo
* Pfaffia townsendii Pedersen
* Pfaffia tuberculosa Pedersen
* Pfaffia tuberosa (Spreng.) Hicken
* Pfaffia velutina Mart.

## Former species

* Pfaffia paniculata \- Suma root, Brazilian ginseng, now classified as Hebanthe erianthos

## Footnotes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Pfaffia Mart.". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1261-1.
2. ↑ "Pfaffia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=500479.
3. ↑ Pfaffia at USDA PLANTS Database

Wikidata ☰ Q7179767 entry

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