Aspilia kotschyi is a species ofherbaceous plant in the family Asteraceae.

[1][2] It has ovate to narrowly lanceolate leaves and dark red-purple flowers commonly found Tropical Africa.

[4] Leaves are simple and opposite in arrangement and borne from the stem; leaf-blade is ovate to narrowly lanceolate, 3–16 cm long and 1–4 cm wide.

[3] Inflorescence is capitulum type, solitary, axillary or sessile clustered around the upper surface of leaves, it has ovoid bracts and small dark purple-brown ray and disc flowers; phyllary is green but brownish around the base.

[3][4] Endemic to Tropical Africa, it occurs from Senegal eastwards towards Ethiopia and southwards up to Zimbabwe.