Senecio microglossusDC. [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
Senecio microglossus
Senecio cupulatus
Flora
Entry for SENECIO microglossus DC. [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 microglossusDC. [family COMPOSITAE], ! l. c. 395
Information
“quite glabrous; stem herbaceous, erect, angle-striate, corymbose at top; leaves petiolate, lyrate, the lateral lobes on each side 2–3, small, entire or few-toothed, the terminal lanceolate or oblongo-lanceolate, tapering to each end, coarsely serrate, obliquely penninerved, rigid; corymb compound, much-branched; pedicels slender, scaly; heads about 12-fl., the rays few and very minute; inv. calycled, of 8 scales; achenes glabrous. Allied to S. serratuloides, but with much more coarsely serrate leaves, smaller fl. heads, and very minute, inconspicuous rays, shorter than their style. I have only seen a small fragment in Hb. Sd.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Grass-fields, betw. Gekau and Basche, Drege! (Herb. Sd.)