Agathophora

Agathophora alopecuroides is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Amaranthaceae. It is a subshrub or shrub native to northern Africa and west Asia, ranging from Morocco to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.^[1] It is the sole species in genus Agathophora.^[2]

Agathophora
Illustration from the protologue of the basionym, Agathophora alopecurioides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Amaranthaceae
Genus:	Agathophora (Fenzl) Bunge (1862)
Species:	A. alopecuroides
Binomial name
Agathophora alopecuroides (Delile) Fenzl ex Bunge (1862)
Synonyms[1]
Anabasis alopecuroides (Delile) Moq. (1849) Halogeton alopecuroides (Delile) Moq. (1840) Halogeton alopecuroides var. laevis Maire (1962), not validly publ. Salsola alopecurioides Delile (1813)