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Delairea odorata

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Name

Identification
Delairea odorata Lem. [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Senecio mikanioides Otto ex Harv. [family COMPOSITAE ] Senecio burchellii DC. [family COMPOSITAE ]
Related name
  • Senecio scandens
  • Delairea odorata
  • Senecio mikanioides
  • Senecio hederaefolius
  • Senecio burchellii

Flora

Entry for SENECIO mikanioides Otto [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 3, page 44, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
SENECIO mikanioides Otto [family COMPOSITAE], MSS.
SENECIO scandens DC. [family COMPOSITAE], ! l. c. 404, excl. syn. Th.
Cacalia scandens Zey. [family COMPOSITAE], ! Coll. 157.
Mikania senecioides Hort. [family COMPOSITAE]
Delairea odorata Lemaire [family COMPOSITAE]
Breonia palmata Hort. [family RUBIACEAE]
Information
scandent, quite glabrous; leaves petiolate, sharply 5–7-angled or lobed, hastate or cordate at base, the lobes deltoid or obsolete, with broad, shallow interspaces; fl. branches terminal and axillary, with a few depauperated leaves, bearing a compound, many-headed corymb; inv. very sparingly calycled, of 8–9 narrow scales, shorter than the flowers; heads discoid, 8–10-fl.; achenes hispidulous on the striæ. A much branched, climbing suffrutex, many feet high. Petioles 1–1 1/2 inch long, slender, sometimes auricled at base. Leaves somewhat fleshy, drying thin, ivy-shaped, variably lobed or angled. Corymb generally much branched, on weak shoots subsimple. Inv. scarcely 2 lines long, much shorter than the flowers.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Forests of Uitenhage, Albany and Caffraria, Burchell, E. & Z.! &c. Zey.! 2977. Katberg, H. Hutton! Natal, T. Cooper, 1130. Cult. in Cape and European gardens. (Herb. D., Sd., Hk.)
Notes
As this is not Thunberg's “Cacalia scandens;” and as the name “ scandens ” is already occupied for an Indian species, I am compelled to reject it.

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