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Senecio glaberrimus

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Name

Identification
Senecio glaberrimus DC. [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by A.P. de Candolle,
Related name
  • Senecio kuntzei
  • Senecio inophyllus
  • Senecio bupleuriformis
  • Senecio latifolius
  • Senecio bupleuroides
  • Senecio swaziensis
  • Senecio glaberrimus

Flora

Entry for SENECIO glaberrimus 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 glaberrimus DC. [family COMPOSITAE], l. c. 403
Information
“herbaceous? quite glabrous, rigid; stem simple, slender, angular, corymbose at summit; cauline leaves sessile, distant, ovate, acute, slightly cordate and clasping at base, quite entire, penni-nerved; corymb slightly compound, fastigiate, pedicels nearly nude, elongate; inv. half as long as disc, of 10 acute scales; disc-fl. 20–25, rays 4–5; achenes glabrous, striate. “18 in. high. Radical lvs. unknown; cauline 3 in. long, 15 l. wide.” Unknown to us. The above diagnosis answers equally well for S. bupleuroides, DC.; does it really differ?
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Omsamcaba, Omtendo and Omsamculo, Drege.

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