Hossein Akhani (born 1965), Iranian botanist.

IPNI standard form: Akhani

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 103 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. 
• Akhani, H. 1998. Plant Biodiversity of Golestan National Park, Iran. Stapfia 53: 1–411. PDF 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 Vol. 172. 371 pp., 212 tab., Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt Graz. 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 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., Malekmohammadi, M., Mahdavi, P., Gharibiyan, A. & Chase, M.W. 2013. Phylogenetics of the Irano‐Turanian taxa of Limonium (Plumbaginaceae) based on ITS nrDNA sequences and leaf anatomy provides evidence for species delimitation and relationships of lineages. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 171(3): 519–550. DOI: 10.1111/boj.12015 ResearchGate 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 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. 
• Malekmohammadi, M., Akhani, H. & Borsch, T. 2017. Phylogenetic relationships of Limonium (Plumbaginaceae) inferred from multiple chloroplast and nuclear loci. Taxon 66(5): 1128–1146. DOI: 10.12705/665.8 ResearchGate Reference page. 

Links

• Hossein Akhani, website at University of Teheran