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SENECIO littoreus Thunb. [family COMPOSITAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 littoreus Thunb. [family COMPOSITAE], ! Cap. 681;—DC. l. c. 379. SENECIO arenarius Th. [family COMPOSITAE], ! (ex pte.) p. 680. SENECIO ustulatus DC. [family COMPOSITAE], l. c. 380. SENECIO heterophyllus Drege [family COMPOSITAE], ! (in Hb. Sd.)
Information
annual, nearly glabrous; stem erect, fistular, with spreading branches; leaves eared and stem-clasping at base, oblong or oblong-hastate, or the lower ones pinnatifid, acute, unequally toothed or incised, the serratures deltoid, callous-tipped; heads in a loose, corymbose panicle, radiate; inv. calyculate, the scales glabrous, oblong-acuminate, brown-tipped, membrane-edged; achenes striate, setulose. 1–2 ft. high, loosely much branched, erect or spreading. Leaves 1 1/2–2 inches long, very variable, in β. the upper leaves are often obovate, in α. usually broad based, but all forms occur indiscriminately together. Inv. scales brown or black-tipped, those of the calycle either ciliate, pilose, or quite glabrous. Drege's “S. ustulatus” DC. is undistinguishable from this; Ecklon's (in Hb. Cap.) is S. maritimus, Linn.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Round Capetown, in sandy ground and near cultivation; Little Namaqualand and Saldanha Bay, Drege! (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd., Cap.)

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 littoreus Thunb. [family COMPOSITAE], ! Cap. 681;—DC. l. c. 379. SENECIO arenarius Th. [family COMPOSITAE], ! (ex pte.) p. 680. SENECIO ustulatus DC. [family COMPOSITAE], l. c. 380. SENECIO heterophyllus Drege [family COMPOSITAE], ! (in Hb. Sd.)
Information
annual, nearly glabrous; stem erect, fistular, with spreading branches; leaves eared and stem-clasping at base, oblong or oblong-hastate, or the lower ones pinnatifid, acute, unequally toothed or incised, the serratures deltoid, callous-tipped; heads in a loose, corymbose panicle, radiate; inv. calyculate, the scales glabrous, oblong-acuminate, brown-tipped, membrane-edged; achenes striate, setulose. 1–2 ft. high, loosely much branched, erect or spreading. Leaves 1 1/2–2 inches long, very variable, in β. the upper leaves are often obovate, in α. usually broad based, but all forms occur indiscriminately together. Inv. scales brown or black-tipped, those of the calycle either ciliate, pilose, or quite glabrous. Drege's “S. ustulatus” DC. is undistinguishable from this; Ecklon's (in Hb. Cap.) is S. maritimus, Linn.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Round Capetown, in sandy ground and near cultivation; Little Namaqualand and Saldanha Bay, Drege! (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd., Cap.)
SENECIO littoreus Thunb. [family COMPOSITAE]
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