Aaronsohnia

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Aaronsohnia
'Aaronsohnia factorovskyi'
'Aaronsohnia factorovskyi'
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Anthemideae
Genus: Aaronsohnia
Warb. & Eig
Species

See text.

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)

[edit] 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

[edit] References

  • BREMER K. & C. J. HUMPHRIES (1993). Generic monograph of the Asteraceae-Anthemideae. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. London (Bot.) 23(2): 71-177.

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