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{{Short description|Plant species in the aster family}}
{{For|the similarly-named plant species|Anthemis cotula}}{{Speciesbox
| image = Cotula anthemoides.jpg
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| genus = Cotula
| species = anthemoides
| authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|L.]]
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'''''Cotula anthemoides''''' is a species of [[flowering plant]] in the [[Asteraceae|Aster family]] that is widely distributed across Africa and southern Asia. It has also been introduced to Albania, France, and Poland.<ref name=":1" />

== Description ==
The species grows across the ground, with the ends of the branches sometimes growing upright. It lacks hairs and has several branches up to 20 centimeters long. The leaves have small stalks and are a stretched oval shape, around 2–4 cm long and 1.5–3 cm wide. The [[Capitulum (flower)|capitula]] are roughly globe-shaped and yellow, with a diameter of 4–6 mm. Each capitulum is solitary on its own thread with stalks 4–5 cm long. The whorl of bracts below the flowers is more or less saucer shaped. The outer florets make a very small corolla, while the disc-florets are twice as long. The fruits are oval shaped and around 1 mm long, with narrow wings and a pale-brown color. The plant flowers from March to June.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Cotula anthemoides in Flora of Pakistan @ efloras.org |url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200023720 |access-date=2023-08-11 |website=www.efloras.org}}</ref> 

== Taxonomy ==
''Cotula anthemoides'' was first [[Species description|formally described]] by [[Carl Linnaeus]] in 1753 in ''[[Species Plantarum]]''. Linnaeus gave the following brief description for the species:<ref>{{Cite book |last=Linné |first=Carl von |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/84236#page/337/mode/1up |title=Species plantarum: exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ad genera relatas, cum diferentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas |date=1753 |publisher= |volume=2 |location=}}</ref>

{{Text and translation|COTULA foliis pinnato-multifidis, corollis radio destitutis.|''Cotula'' with cleftly-divided [[Pinnation|pinnate]] leaves, lacking ray-like petals.}}

=== Synonyms ===
The following synonyms are accepted according to [[Plants of the World Online]]:<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Cotula anthemoides L. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:198423-1 |access-date=2023-08-11 |website=Plants of the World Online |language=en}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|
!Name
!Author
!Year
!Journal
|-
! rowspan="2" |Homotypic
|''Lancisia anthemoides''
|(L.) Moench
|1802
|Suppl. Meth.
|-
|''Pleiogyne anthemoides''
|(L.) K.Koch
|1843
|Bot. Zeitung (Berlin)
|-
! rowspan="7" |Heterotypic
|''Artemisia nilotica''
|L.
|1755
|Cent. Pl. I
|-
|''Cenia microcephala''
|E.Mey. ''ex'' DC.
|1838
|Prodr.
|-
|''Cotula dichrocephala''
|Sch.Bip. ''ex'' A.Rich.
|1848
|Tent. Fl. Abyss.
|-
|''Cotula microcephala''
|DC.
|1838
|Prodr.
|-
|''Nananthea tassiliensis''
|Batt. & Trab.
|1913
|Bull. Soc. Bot. France
|-
|''Pleiogyne cardiospermum''
|Edgew.
|1846
|Trans. Linn. Soc. London
|-
|''Pleiogyne microcephala''
|K.Koch
|1843
|Bot. Zeitung (Berlin)
|}

== Uses ==
The flower heads are used in [[traditional medicine]] to treat [[Rheumatism|rheumatic pain]]. A [[poultice]] is created by crushing the flower parts into powder and then warming them with oil.<ref name=":0" />

== References ==
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[[Category:Cotula|anthemoides]]