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Senecio ruderalis

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Name

Identification
Senecio madagascariensis Poir. [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Senecio ruderalis Harv. [family COMPOSITAE ] Senecio pellucidus DC. [family COMPOSITAE ] Senecio inaequidens DC. [family COMPOSITAE ]
Related name
  • Senecio ruderalis
  • Senecio inaequidens
  • Senecio madagascariensis
  • Senecio pellucidus

Flora

Entry for SENECIO ruderalis Harv. [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 ruderalis Harv. [family COMPOSITAE]
Information
annual, glabrous; stem erect, branched, rigid, angle-striate; leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute, tapering to the base, distantly denticulate or subentire with subrevolute margins, sometimes slightly eared at base; heads loosely corymbose, on long, sparsely scaly pedicels, radiate; inv. calycled at base, glabrous, of 18–20 acute scales; rays 12–15, revolute; disc fl. 50–60; achenes closely puberulous. 1–1 1/2 ft. high, diffusely branched, the stems green. Leaves 2 inches long, 2–4 lines wide, rather rigid when dry, on both sides green. Inv. campanulate, 2–3 lines long. Rays yellow, 4 lined.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Waste ground near Natal, T. Williamson, J. Sanderson, 326, Gerr. & M‘K., 324. Dr. W. B. Grant. Near Delagoa Bay, Capt. Speke. (Herb. D., Hk.)

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