''Trichocline heterophylla'' is a plant in the family

Asteraceae The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...

family, native to

Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...

. It was first described i 1826 by Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel as ''Onoseris heterophylla'' but in 1830 was transferred to the genus ''

Trichocline ''Trichocline'' is a genus of Australian and South American plants in the tribe Mutisieae within the family Asteraceae. It consists of one species from Australia ''(T. spathulata)'' and twenty-three from South America. Its closest relatives are ...

'' by

Christian Friedrich Lessing Christian Friedrich Lessing (10 August 1809 – 13 March 1862) was a German botanist who was a native of Syców, Groß Wartenberg, Niederschlesien. He was a brother to painter Carl Friedrich Lessing (1808–1880), and a grandnephew of poet Gotthold ...

. The species epithet, ''heterophylla'', is derived from the Greek ''heteros'' ("other" or "different") and ''phyllon'' ("leaf") giving an adjective which describes the plant as having varied leaves.

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{{taxonbar, from=Q15560424 Flora of Uruguay Plants described in 1830 Mutisieae