Akhania

{{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)

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|subdivision =

• Akhania canescens {{small|(Moq.) Sukhor.}}
• Akhania carpatha {{small|(P.H.Davis) Sukhor.}}
• Akhania daghestanica {{small|(Bunge) Sukhor.}}

|subdivision_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77306620-1 Akhania Sukhor.] Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 30 March 2024.

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Akhania is a genus of flowering plants 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.

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.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

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.