Hossein Akhani (born 1965), Iranian botanist.

IPNI standard form: Akhani

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 101 taxon names authored by Hossein Akhani

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• Botschantzev, V.P. & Akhani, H. 1989. A new section and a new species of the genus Salsola (Chenopodiaceae) from Southern Iran. Botanicheskii Zhurnal. Moscow & Leningrad 74: 1664–1666. Reference page. 

• Akhani, H. 1996. A new species and a synonym in Chenopodiaceae from Iran. Sendtnera 3: 5–11. BHL Reference page. 
• Hedge, I.C., Akhani, H., Freitag, H., Kothe-Heinrich, G., Podlech, D., Rilke, S. & Uotila, P. 1997. Chenopodiaceae. In: Rechinger, K.H. (ed.): Flora Iranica no. 172. Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt Graz, 371 pp., 212 tab. Reference page. 

• Akhani, H. 2003. Salicornia persica Akhani (Chenopodiaceae) a remarkable new species from Central Iran. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 35: 607–612. Reference page. 

• Akhani, H., Barroca, J., Koteeva, N., Voznesenskaya, E., Franceschi, V., Edwards, G., Ghaffari, S.M & Ziegler, H. 2005. Bienertia sinuspersici (Chenopodiaceae): A New Species from Southwest Asia and Discovery of a Third Terrestrial C₄ Plant Without Kranz Anatomy. Systematic Botany 30(2): 290–301; figs. 1-5). DOI: 10.1600/0363644054223684 Reference page. 

• Kapralov, M.V., Akhani, H., Voznesenskaya, E.V., Edwards, G., Franceschi, V. & Roalson, E.H. 2006. Phylogenetic relationships in the Salicornioideae / Suaedoideae / Salsoloideae s.l. (Chenopodiaceae) clade and a clarification of the phylogenetic position of Bienertia and Alexandra using multiple DNA sequence datasets. Systematic Botany 31(3): 571–585. DOI: 10.1043/06-01.1 Full text PDF from ResearchGate Reference page. 

• Akhani, H., Edwards, G. & Roalson, E.H. 2007. Diversification of the Old World Salsoleae s.l. (Chenopodiaceae): Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of Nuclear and Chloroplast Data Sets and a Revised Classification. International Journal of Plant Sciences 168(6): 931–956. DOI: 10.1086/518263 Full text PDF from ResearchGate Reference page. 

• Akhani, H. 2008. Taxonomic revision of the genus Salicornia L. (Chenopodiaceae) in central and southern Iran. Pakistan Journal of Botany 40(4): 1635–1655. PDF Reference page. 

• Akhani, H., Chatrenoor, T., Dehghani, M., Khoshravesh, R., Mahdavi, P. & Matinzadeh, Z. 2012. A new species of Bienertia (Chenopodiaceae) from Iranian salt deserts: a third species of the genus and discovery of a fourth terrestrial C4 plant without Kranz anatomy. Plant Biosystems 146: 550–559. DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2012.662921 Reference page. 

• Akhani, H. & Khoshravesh, R. 2013. The relationship and different C4 Kranz anatomy of Bassia eriantha and Bassia eriophora, two often confused Irano-Turanian and Saharo-Sindian species. Phytotaxa 93(1): 1–24. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.93.1.1 PDF at Researchgate.net Reference page. 

• Freitag, H., Brandt, R., Chatrenoor, T. & Akhani, H. 2013. Suaeda iranshahrii, a new species of Suaeda subgenus Brezia (Chenopodiaceae) from the Persian Gulf coasts. Rostaniha 14(1): 68-80. PDF Reference page. 

• Akhani, H., Greuter, W. & Roalson, E.H. 2014. Notes on the typification and nomenclature of Salsola and Kali (Chenopodiaceae). Taxon 63(3): 647–650. DOI: 10.12705/633.1 Reference page. 

• Akhani, H. 2015. Plants and vegetation of north-west Persian Gulf. The coasts and islands of Khore Musa, Mahshahr and adjacent areas. University of Tehran Press. ISBN: 9789640367391. Reference page. 

• Hernández-Ledesma, P., Berendsohn, W. G., Borsch, T., Mering, S. v., Akhani, H., Arias, S., Castañeda-Noa, I., Eggli, U., Eriksson, R., Flores-Olvera, H., Fuentes-Bazán, S., Kadereit, G., Klak, C., Korotkova, N., Nyffeler R., Ocampo G., Ochoterena, H., Oxelman, B., Rabeler, R. K., Sanchez, A., Schlumpberger, B. O. & Uotila, P. 2015. A taxonomic backbone for the global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. Willdenowia 45(3): 281–383. DOI: 10.3372/wi.45.45301 PDF. Reference page. 

• Akhani, H., Khoshravesh, R. & Malekmohammadi, M. 2016. Taxonomic novelties from Irano-Turanian region and NE Iran: Oreosalsola, a new segregate from Salsola s.l., two new species in Anabasis and Salvia, and two new combinations in Caroxylon and Seseli. Phytotaxa 249(1): 159–180. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.249.1.7 Reference page. 

Links

• Hossein Akhani, website at University of Teheran