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Senecio macroglossus

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Identification
Senecio macroglossus DC. [family ASTERACEAE ]
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Entry for SENECIO macroglossus 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 macroglossus DC. [family COMPOSITAE], l. c. 404;—Zey.! coll. 70.
Information
scandent, quite glabrous; lvs. petiolate, hastate, with salient acuminate basal-lobes; or cordate, acute or acuminate, entire, or with 1–2 broad teeth or lobules on each side; fl. branches bearing a few oblong or lanceolate leaf-scales, 1–3-headed; disc-fl. 40–50, rays 12, multistriate. Climbing up trees in woods. Leaves on uncial petioles, commonly deltoid-hastate, varying to cordate with imperfect lobes, 1 1/2 in. long and equally wide. Fl. branches 3–6 inches long, mostly 1-headed, each bearing 4–5 reduced leaves or scales. Bracts of the calyculus nearly as long as inv. scales. Except for the rays it comes near S. quinquelobus.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Bushman's R., Uitenhage, Zey.! 2986. Keiskamma Hoek, W. S. M. D'Urban, 43. Natal, Drege! Gerr. & McK., 330. (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.)

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