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Senecio cotyledonis

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Name

Identification
Senecio cotyledonis DC. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by A.P. de Candolle,
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Flora

Entry for SENECIO cotyledonis 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 cotyledonis DC. [family COMPOSITAE], ! l. c. 402
Information
“a fleshy shrub, quite glabrous; branches thick, terete, marked with leaf-scars; leaves crowded round the apices, fleshy, linear, tapering at base, callous-mucronate, somewhat keeled; pedicels shorter than the leaves, scaly, one-headed; inv. cylindrical, scarcely calycled, of 10–12 narrow, acuminate scales; disc-fl. abt. 25, rays 5–7; achenes puberulous. A thick-stemmed, fleshy bush. Leaves uncial, many in the tuft. Pedicel and head together not equalling the leaf. Fl. bright yellow.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Kendo and Zwaanepoelspoortberg, Karroo, Drege! (Herb. Hk., Sd.)

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