Aspilia kotschyi (Sch. Bip. ex Hochst.) Oliv. articles

Derivation of specific name

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alba: white

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bibliographic citation: Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Aspilia kotschyi (Sch. Bip.ex Hochst.) Oliv.
var. alba Berhaut Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=160420
author: Mark Hyde
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Description

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Erect, sparsely branched annual herb, up to 1.3 m tall Most parts covered in rough hairs. Leaves opposite, ± sessile; narrowly lanceolate, up to 20 × 5 cm, roughly hairy on both surfaces with longer hairs on the veins below; margin shallowly scalloped to almost entire. Capitula c. 2 cm in diameter, in the upper leaf axils. Ray florets dark purple to purple-brown, rarely pink. See white-flowered var. alba for comparison.

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bibliographic citation: Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Aspilia kotschyi (Sch. Bip.ex Hochst.) Oliv.
var. kotschyi Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=160410
author: Mark Hyde
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Description

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See var. kotschyi for general description. This variety is clearly distinguished by the ray-florets being white.

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bibliographic citation: Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Aspilia kotschyi (Sch. Bip.ex Hochst.) Oliv.
var. alba Berhaut Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=160420
author: Mark Hyde
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Worldwide distribution

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Widespread in tropical Africa

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bibliographic citation: Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Aspilia kotschyi (Sch. Bip.ex Hochst.) Oliv.
var. kotschyi Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=160410
author: Mark Hyde
author: Bart Wursten
author: Petra Ballings

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Worldwide distribution

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As for var. kotschyi but generally less common

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bibliographic citation: Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Aspilia kotschyi (Sch. Bip.ex Hochst.) Oliv.
var. alba Berhaut Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=160420
author: Mark Hyde
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author: Petra Ballings

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Aspilia kotschyi

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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 variety, 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. JSTOR 23501042.

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Aspilia kotschyi: Brief Summary

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

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