Compilation
Senecio brachypodus

herbaceous? quite glabrous; stem (or branches) elongate, terete, leafy; leaves tapering at base into a short petiole, broadly ovate, acute, subentire or repando-denticulate, penninerved, membranous and netted-veined when dry; corymb compound, much-branched, shortly pedunculate or subsessile, pedicels scaly, scarcely longer than the head; inv. of 8 scales, shorter than the disc, truncate and sparingly calycled at base; disc-fl. 6–8, rays 3–4; achenes glabrous. 2–3 feet or more high; stems (or branches?) simple, weak, flexuous and perhaps scandent, laxly leafy throughout. Leaves 3–4 inches long, 2–2 1/2 inches wide, a little fleshy perhaps when fresh, but drying thin, distantly and minutely denticulate. Corymb fastigiate. Inv. 2–3 lines long. Rays yellow.