Aaronsohnia
Appearance
Aaronsohnia | |
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Aaronsohnia factorovskyi | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Tribe: | Anthemideae |
Genus: | Aaronsohnia Warb. & Eig |
Species | |
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Aaronsohnia is a genus in the family Asteraceae, native to mainly non-salty steppes and deserts in North Africa and Middle East. It was named in 1927 after the agronomist Aaron Aaronsohn by the botanists Otto Warburg (1859–1938) and Alexander Eig (1894–1938)
Species and subspecies
- Aaronsohnia factorovskyi Warb. & Eig 1927
- Aaronsohnia pubescens ( Desf. ) K.Bremer & Humphries 1993 (basionym : Cotula pubescens Desf.)
- Aaronsohnia pubescens (Desf.) K.Bremer & Humphries subsp. maroccana (Ball) Förther & Podlech
- Aaronsohnia pubescens (Desf.) K.Bremer & Humphries subsp. pubescens
References
- Bremer, K.; C. J. Humphries (1993). "Generic monograph of the Asteraceae-Anthemideae". Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. London (Bot.). 23 (2): 71–177.
External links
- African flowering plants database
- Photo of Aaronsohnia factorovskyi
- Photo of Aaronsohnia pubescens
- Chemical Composition and Antifungal Activity of Aaronsohnia pubescens Essential Oil from Algeria