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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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|image = Akhania daghestanica.jpg
|image_caption = ''Akhania daghestanica''
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|taxon = Akhania
|authority = Sukhor. (2022)
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision =
*''[[Akhania canescens]]'' {{small|(Moq.) Sukhor.}}
*''[[Akhania carpatha]]'' {{small|(P.H.Davis) Sukhor.}}
*''[[Akhania daghestanica]]'' {{small|(Bunge) Sukhor.}}
|subdivision_ref = <ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77306620-1 ''Akhania'' Sukhor.] ''[[Plants of the World Online]]''. Retrieved 30 March 2024.</ref>
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'''''Akhania''''' is a [[genus]] of [[flowering plant]]s in the amaranth family, [[Amaranthaceae]]. It includes three species native to the eastern Mediterranean and western and central Asia, ranging from Greece through western Asia to the Caucasus, Kazakhstan, and Afghanistan.<ref name = powo/>
''Akhania'' includes small shrubs or subshrubs 20 to 100 cm tall. The plants have a bushy habit, with several or numerous stems, small linear or broadly lanceolate leaves which are bright green, glaucous, or grayish and 5–35 mm long by 1–3 mm wide.<ref name = Sukhorukov>Sukhorukov AP, Fedorova AV, Kushunina M, Mavrodiev EV (2022). ''Akhania'', a new genus for ''Salsola daghestanica'', ''Caroxylon canescens'' and ''C. carpathum'' (Salsoloideae, Chenopodiaceae, Amaranthaceae). ''PhytoKeys'' 211: 45-61. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.211.89408</ref>
The genus ''Akhania'' is named after the Iranian botanist Hossein Akhani. Its species were formerly placed in the genera ''[[Salsola]]'' or ''[[Caroxylon]]''. A genetic and morphological analysis concluded that the three species formed a distinct clade which is sister to ''Caroxylon''.<ref name = Sukhorukov/>
==Species==
Three species are accepted:<ref name = powo/><ref name = Sukhorukov/>
*''[[Akhania canescens]]'' {{small|(Moq.) Sukhor.}} – western and central Asia, from Turkey and Palestine to Afghanistan and Kazakhstan
*''[[Akhania carpatha]]'' {{small|(P.H.Davis) Sukhor.}} – the Greek Islands of Crete, Karpathos, and the [[Cyclades]]
*''[[Akhania daghestanica]]'' {{small|(Bunge) Sukhor.}} – endemic to [[Dagestan]] in the northeastern Caucasus.
==References==
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[[Category:Amaranthaceae genera]]
[[Category:Palearctic flora]]
[[Category:Amaranthaceae]]