Aspilia kotschyi

Aspilia kotschyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Genus:	Aspilia
Species:	A. kotschyi
Binomial name
	Aspilia kotschyi; (Sch.Bip. ex Hochst.) Oliv.

Aspilia kotschyi is an annual herbaceous species with ovate to narrowly lanceolate leaves and dark red-purple flowers commonly found Tropical Africa.^[1] It has a subspecies, Aspilia kotschyi var. alba which has white flowers.^[2]

Description[]

Leaves are simple and opposite in arrangement and borne from the stem; leaf-blade is ovate to narrowly lanceolate, 3–16 cm long and 1–4 cm wide.^[1] Inflorescence is capitulum type, solitary, axillary or sessile clustered around the upper surface of leaves, it has ovoid bracts and small dark purple-brown ray and disc flowers; phyllary is green but brownish around the base.^[1]^[2]

Distribution[]

Endemic to Tropical Africa, it occurs from Senegal eastwards towards Ethiopia and southwards up to Zimbabwe.^[1]

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Al-Khulaidi, A.; Filimban, F.; Alfaifi, M.; Al-Namazi, A. (2021). "A new record of generic vascular plant for the flora of Saudi Arabia: Aspilia kotschyi (Asteraceae)". Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences. 28 (3): 1962–1965. doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2020.12.048. PMC 7938146. PMID 33732082.
^ ^a ^b Wild, H. (1966). "THE AFRICAN SPECIES OF THE GENUS ASPILIA THOUARS". Kirkia. 5 (2): 197–228. ISSN 0451-9930.

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[:0-1] Al-Khulaidi, A.; Filimban, F.; Alfaifi, M.; Al-Namazi, A. (2021). "A new record of generic vascular plant for the flora of Saudi Arabia: Aspilia kotschyi (Asteraceae)". Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences. 28 (3): 1962–1965. doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2020.12.048. PMC 7938146. PMID 33732082.

[:1-2] Wild, H. (1966). "THE AFRICAN SPECIES OF THE GENUS ASPILIA THOUARS". Kirkia. 5 (2): 197–228. ISSN 0451-9930.

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