Entry for SENECIO coronopifolius Desf. [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 253, (1877) Author: (By Prof. Oliver and W. P. Hiern.)
Names
SENECIO coronopifoliusDesf. [family COMPOSITAE], Fl. Atl. ii. p. 273. —DC. Prodr. vi. p. 344.
SENECIO RüppelliiSchultz Bip. [family COMPOSITAE], in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Æthiop. p. 157, n. 812.
Information
Annual, 4–24 in. high, erect, branched, glabrous in most parts. Leaves fleshy, sessile, semi-amplexicaul, pinnately lobed or entire, 1/3–2 in. long, lobes linear and sometimes dentate or dentiform; margins revolute. Capitula campanulate, at length hemispherical, about 1/4 in. long, 1 or few together, on peduncles or pedicels ranging up to 1 1/2 in., forming a wide corymbose cyme. Calyculus of 6–8 short lanceolate bracts. Involucral bracts linear, sometimes broadly so, with a lanceolate tip, dark-coloured at the apex, with narrow scarious margins, about equalling the florets. Ligule of the marginal florets oblong, shorter than the involucre. Achenes costate, minutely setulose.
Range
Occurs in the Oriental regions and extends to Affghanistan.
