Entry for SENECIO macrospermus 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 macrospermusDC. [family COMPOSITAE], l. c. 385
Information
“herbaceous, erect, cobweb-cotonny, subcanescent; leaves callous-toothed, elongato-lanceolate, the lowest petioled, much attenuate at base” [and externally many-nerved]; “cauline sessile; corymb 6–7-headed, pedicels long, thick, nude” [rib-furrowed]; “inv. sparingly and shortly calycled, at length quite reflexed; recept. smooth; achenes terete-compressed” [rib-striate, scaberulous in the furrows] “tapering a little at each end.” DC. l. c. Of this I have only seen a leaf, an empty receptacle with its withered invol., and some ripe achenes. The leaves are 10–18 inches long (fide DC.); the heads an inch in diameter. Achenes 4 lines long, pale.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Witbergen, 6000 ft., Drege! (Herb. Sond.)
