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Senecio tomentosus

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Original material of Senecio semidentatus Klatt [family COMPOSITAE]
Filed as Senecio lanatus L. [family ASTERACEAE]
Filed as Senecio tomentosus Michx. [family ASTERACEAE]
Filed as Senecio cinerascens Aiton [family ASTERACEAE]
Senecio tomentosus / Fran[cis]co Pulgar. Original drawing from Ruiz & Pavón's Expedition (1777-1816)
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Name

Identification
Senecio salivaria Not on sheet [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Senecio tomentosus Michx. [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Senecio salivaria
  • Senecio tomentosus
Common name
  • Woolly ragwort, Flora of North America Vol. 20

Flora

Entry for SENECIO cinerascens Ait. [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 cinerascens Ait. [family COMPOSITAE], ;—Jacq. Schoenb. t. 150. DC.! l. c. 389.
Jacobæa tomentosa Th. [family ], ! Cap. 678.
SENECIO tomentosus Salisb. [family COMPOSITAE], Prod. 196.
Information
stem suffruticose, erect, virgate, thinly white-woolly, leafy, corymbiferous; leaves more or less petioled, pinnati-partite or pinnatifid, the lobes on each side 2–4, linear or lance-oblong, obtuse, with revolute margins, albo-tomentose beneath, either tomentose or glabrate above; upper leaves sessile; corymb subsimple, few-headed, the pedicels long; inv. cobwebbed or glabrate, calycled, of many scales; heads many-fl., rays “3–5, flat, not revolute,” or none. Stem 1–2 ft. high, pale. Leaves 3–5 inches long, the rachis 1–4 lines wide; lobes 1/2–1 inch long, 1–2 lines wide. Corymb 3–8-headed. Heads 5–6 lines long, and nearly equally broad. I have not seen rays on the few specimens examined.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Cape, Thunberg! Kamiesberg, Drege! (Herb. Th., D., Sd., Hk.)

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