Aaronsohnia

Taxobox
name = "Aaronsohnia"


image_caption = 'Aaronsohnia factorovskyi'
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Asterales
familia = Asteraceae
subfamilia = Asteroideae
tribus = Anthemideae
genus = "Aaronsohnia"
genus_authority = Warb. & Eig
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = 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)

pecies 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

* [http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/bd/africa/details.php?langue=an&id=135499 African flowering plants database]
* [http://www.botanic.co.il/a/catalog.asp?qcat=AARFAC Photo of "Aaronsohnia factorovskyi"]
* [http://www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/sbf/activ_maroc.htm Photo of "Aaronsohnia pubescens"]