Code
APIKO
Life form
Broadleaf
Biological cycle
Annual
Habit
Terrestrial
APIKO
Life form
Broadleaf
Biological cycle
Annual
Habit
Terrestrial
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Coronocarpus prieurianus Benth. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Global description
Aspilia kotschyi is an erect, hispid plant with simple, opposite and sessile leaves. The flowers are assembled in terminal capitules, of purple red color, inserted in a bouquet of small leaves.
Cotyledons
The cotyledons are oblong, rounded at the end. They are located 3 to 5 cm above the ground. They are borne by a petiole 5 mm long. The blade is 20 mm long and 5 mm wide. Both sides are pubescent.
First leaves
The first leaves are simple and opposite. They are sessile or appear petiolate by narrowing of the petiole-shaped limb base. They are linear to lanceolate, with an acute apex. The margin is entire and both sides are hispid.
General habit
The plant is erect and composed of a main axis, more or less branched. It is 30 to 120 cm tall, depending on soil moisture and fertility conditions.
Underground system
A taproot.
Stem
The stem is cylindrical and solid. It is strongly hispid; the hairs have purplish warts at their base.
Leaf
The leaves are simple and opposite. They are sessile. The blade is lanceolate, attenuated in acutely cunate at the top and at the base. The margin is toothed. Both sides are covered with stiff, tubercle-based hairs. They are 8 to 15 cm long and 1.5 to 3 cm wide.
Inflorescence
The flowers are assembled in terminal capitules, subsessile, surrounded by a bouquet of leaves. The capitulum, 2.5 cm in diameter, is surrounded by an involucre of lanceolate, hispid bracts, arranged in 2 or 3 rows.
Flower
In the center of the capitulum are tubular flowers, bisexual, fertile, whose corolla tube is white at the base and purple red at the top. On the periphery are ligulate, sterile flowers. The ligule is orbicular in shape, with two short teeth. The ligulate flowers are purple red.
Fruit
The fruits are oblong achenes, flattened laterally, in two convex faces. They are 6 to 7 mm long. The faces are densely pubescent. At the base are two white, triangular scales. The summit is surmounted by two spines, 3 mm long, which meet at their base forming a small cup.
Aspilia kotschyi is an erect, hispid plant with simple, opposite and sessile leaves. The flowers are assembled in terminal capitules, of purple red color, inserted in a bouquet of small leaves.
Cotyledons
The cotyledons are oblong, rounded at the end. They are located 3 to 5 cm above the ground. They are borne by a petiole 5 mm long. The blade is 20 mm long and 5 mm wide. Both sides are pubescent.
First leaves
The first leaves are simple and opposite. They are sessile or appear petiolate by narrowing of the petiole-shaped limb base. They are linear to lanceolate, with an acute apex. The margin is entire and both sides are hispid.
General habit
The plant is erect and composed of a main axis, more or less branched. It is 30 to 120 cm tall, depending on soil moisture and fertility conditions.
Underground system
A taproot.
Stem
The stem is cylindrical and solid. It is strongly hispid; the hairs have purplish warts at their base.
Leaf
The leaves are simple and opposite. They are sessile. The blade is lanceolate, attenuated in acutely cunate at the top and at the base. The margin is toothed. Both sides are covered with stiff, tubercle-based hairs. They are 8 to 15 cm long and 1.5 to 3 cm wide.
Inflorescence
The flowers are assembled in terminal capitules, subsessile, surrounded by a bouquet of leaves. The capitulum, 2.5 cm in diameter, is surrounded by an involucre of lanceolate, hispid bracts, arranged in 2 or 3 rows.
Flower
In the center of the capitulum are tubular flowers, bisexual, fertile, whose corolla tube is white at the base and purple red at the top. On the periphery are ligulate, sterile flowers. The ligule is orbicular in shape, with two short teeth. The ligulate flowers are purple red.
Fruit
The fruits are oblong achenes, flattened laterally, in two convex faces. They are 6 to 7 mm long. The faces are densely pubescent. At the base are two white, triangular scales. The summit is surmounted by two spines, 3 mm long, which meet at their base forming a small cup.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
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📚 Natural History
Life Cycle
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Northern Cameroon: Aspilia kotschyi is present throughout the entire crop cycle. The first germinations take place in May, at the beginning of the rainy season, during the first significant rains. Tillage, mechanical weeding and hilling trigger new sprouts. Flowering begins in July and fruiting in August. The plant disappears at the beginning of the dry season. In plots near rivers and where soil moisture is maintained by a water table, the species is maintained in flower and fruit as long as the soil remains sufficiently moist until the middle of the dry season (March) .
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Ecology
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Northern Cameroon: Aspilia kotschyi grows mainly on alluvial soils. It is more common in the Sudanian region, with a rainfall of more than 1300 mm, than in the drier regions where it only develops when the water table is close to the surface.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
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Worldwide distribution
Aspilia kotschyi is present throughout tropical Africa.
Aspilia kotschyi is present throughout tropical Africa.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
Risk Statement
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Local weediness
Northern Cameroon: In Northern Cameroon, Aspilia kotschyi has a frequency of appearance of 10% in cultivated fields; it is abundant only occasionally in humid zones.
Northern Cameroon: In Northern Cameroon, Aspilia kotschyi has a frequency of appearance of 10% in cultivated fields; it is abundant only occasionally in humid zones.
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📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
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References
- Le Bourgeois, T. and H. Merlier (1995). Adventrop - Les adventices d'Afrique soudano-sahélienne. Montpellier, France, Cirad. 640 p.
- Berhaut J., 1967. Flore du Sénégal. 2ème éd. Clairafrique éd., Dakar, Sénégal, 485p.
- Le Bourgeois Th., 1993. Les mauvaises herbes dans la rotation cotonnière au Nord-Cameroun (Afrique) - Amplitude d'habitat et degré d'infestation - Cycle de développement. Thèse USTL Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, 241p.
- Hutchinson J., Dalziel J. M., Keay R. W. J. & Hepper F. N., 1968. Flora of West Tropical Africa. Vol. III part. 1. 2ème éd. The Whitefriars Press ed., London & Tonbridge, 276p.
Information Listing > References
- Le Bourgeois, T. and H. Merlier (1995). Adventrop - Les adventices d'Afrique soudano-sahélienne. Montpellier, France, Cirad. 640 p.
- Berhaut J., 1967. Flore du Sénégal. 2ème éd. Clairafrique éd., Dakar, Sénégal, 485p.
- Le Bourgeois Th., 1993. Les mauvaises herbes dans la rotation cotonnière au Nord-Cameroun (Afrique) - Amplitude d'habitat et degré d'infestation - Cycle de développement. Thèse USTL Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, 241p.
- Hutchinson J., Dalziel J. M., Keay R. W. J. & Hepper F. N., 1968. Flora of West Tropical Africa. Vol. III part. 1. 2ème éd. The Whitefriars Press ed., London & Tonbridge, 276p.
Images
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Asterales |
| Family | Asteraceae |
| Genus | Aspilia |
| Species | Aspilia kotschyi (Sch.Bip. ex Hochst.) Oliv. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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