Entry for SENECIO Burchellii 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 BurchelliiDC. [family COMPOSITAE], l. c. 401;—Sieb.! Cap. 34.
Information
stem suffruticose, erect, scabro-pubescent or glabrous, striate; leaves half-clasping and minutely eared and toothed at base, linear, entire or denticulate, with revolute margins; fl. branches nude or sparsely leafy, loosely corymbose or panicled; pedicels elongate, scaly; inv. of about 12 scales, glabrous, calycled; disc-fl. about 40, rays 5–7, flat; achenes minutely puberulous. A scrubby, half woody bush, with the habit of S. rosmarinifolius, but much looser inflorescence, the heads of twice larger size, on long pedicels, very few in the corymbs, or subsolitary. Stem more or less rough with minute, rigid hairs. Leaves 1–2 in. long, 1 line wide. Pedicels 1–3 in. long. S. linariæfolius, Drege! (Hb. Sd.) partly belongs to this; partly to S. debilis (Hb. Hk.).
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Cape Flats, Burchell, Mundt! Sieber! Wallich! C. Wright, 294. (Herb. Hk., Sd., D.)
