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Senecio leptophyllus

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Identification
Senecio hakeifolius Bertero ex DC. [family COMPOSITAE ] Senecio leptophyllus Hook. & Arn. [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Senecio hakeifolius Bertero ex DC. [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Senecio leptophyllus Hook. & Arn. [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Senecio pectinatus
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  • Senecio hakeifolius

Flora

Entry for SENECIO leptophyllus 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 leptophyllus DC. [family COMPOSITAE], ! l. c. 400
Information
suffruticose, erect, branching; stem terete, sparingly cobwebbed; leaves linear, with revolute margins, entire, ear-clasping, the auricle small, toothed or subentire; corymbs laxly few-headed, pedicels nude; heads discoid, 50–60-fl.; inv. calycled, of about 15-margined scales; achenes puberulous. A rigid suffrutex, 1–2 feet high, with the leaves and inflorescence of S. Burchellii, but discoid fl. heads. Leaves 1–1 1/2 inch long, 1 line wide, the auricle small and sometimes obsolete. Mrs. Barber's specimens agree well with a poor one from Drege, in Herb. Sond.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Uitvlugt, and near Kendo, Drege! Common on the Eastern Frontier, Mrs. F. W. Barber! 398. (Herb. Sd., D.)

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