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Senecio deltoideus

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Name

Identification
Senecio rooseveltianus De Wild. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Senecio deltoideus Less. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Jeffrey C., 1984
Related name
  • Senecio mikaniaeformis
  • Senecio deltoideus
  • Senecio halimifolius
  • Senecio mikaniiformis
  • Senecio mikaniae
  • Cacalia scandens
  • Senecio rooseveltianus
  • Senecio sarmentosus

Flora

Entry for SENECIO deltoideus Less. [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 deltoideus Less. [family COMPOSITAE], ! Syn. 392;—DC.! l. c. 404
SENECIO Mikaniæ DC. [family COMPOSITAE], !
SENECIO Mikaniæformis DC. [family COMPOSITAE], ! l. c. 405.
Cacalia scandens Th. [family COMPOSITAE], ! Cap. 625.
Mikania auriculata Willd. [family COMPOSITAE]
Information
scandent, much branched, glabrous or nearly so; leaves petiolate, often ear-stipuled at base of petiole, deltoid-hastate, acuminate, unequally multi-dentate; corymbs from the upper axils or in a terminal panicle, divaricate, forked, several-headed; inv. scarcely calycled, of about 5 oblong, blunt scales; fl. 5–6; achenes hispid on the striæ. A much branched, angularly bent, slender climber, several feet long. Leaves on uncial petioles, 1–2 inches long, 1/2–1 1/2 in. wide, trowel-shaped, more or less cordate at base, tapering to an acute point. Corymbs on very short peduncles, from the axils of the upper leaves or of leaf-scales, 6–12-headed; sometimes in a divaricate panicle. Inv. 2 lines long. Cooper's 1124, 1313 and 1513 belong to this.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Uit., Albany, Caffraria and Natal; frequent. (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.)

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