Entry for SENECIO scaposus 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 scaposusDC. [family COMPOSITAE], ! l. c. 403
Information
stem shrubby, fleshy, either very short or elongate and branched; leaves crowded at the apex of the stem or branches, fleshy, broadly linear, very obtuse, terete, often flattened near the tip and subspathulate, the younger cobwebbed, the older glabrous; pedunc. scapelike, nude or sparsely scaly, many times longer than the leaves, cobwebbed, one or several headed, the pedicels elongate; inv. cobwebbed, scarcely calycled, of 10–12 scales; disc-fl. very many, rays about 12; achenes nearly glabrous. Wild specimens generally stemless, or with very short stems. Leaves 2–3 inches long, 2–3 lines diam. Pedunc. 1–1 1/2 f. long, occasionally 1 headed, more frequently with 3–5, long pedicelled heads. Young parts more or less cobwebbed or thinly woolly.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Eastern Districts, Bowie, Burchell. Zwartkops R., Drege! E. & Z.! Zey.! 2983. (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.)
