title: Aaronsohnia
text: # Aaronsohnia
  
  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
  
  As of July 2020, Plants of the World online has 2 accepted species:
  
  * Aaronsohnia factorovskyi Warb. & Eig 1927
  * Aaronsohnia pubescens (Desf.) K.Bremer & Humphries 1993 (basionym : Cotula pubescens Desf.)
     * A. pubescens subsp. pubescens
     * A. pubescens subsp. maroccana (Ball) Förther & Podlech
  