Kleinia longiflora Dc.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Kleinia

Characteristics

Shrub, up to 2 m high; glabrous, succulent. Branches angular, grey-green or stained purple. Leaves alternate, petiolate to subpetiolate; blade minute, linear-subulate, margins entire; plant often seems leafless. Heads discoid, solitary or few together on very short peduncles at ends of branches and axillary. Involucral bracts 5 or 6, linear, striate, with 2 or 3 minute, calyculus bracts below involucral bracts. Flowers: disc florets only, white to cream-coloured; Jun., Sep.-Nov. Fruit with cypsela cylindrical, ribbed, hispidulous between ribs. Pappus of white, barbellate bristles, shiny white and long in mature cypsela.
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Many-stemmed, succulent shrub, 0.2-2.0 m high, glabrous, stems multi-angular (furrowed when dry). Leaves distant, up to 10 mm long, linear-subulate, sessile, deciduous. Peduncles 1-8, lateral or terminal, branched or unbranched, 3-10 mm long, ± bracteate. Capitula 10 mm in diam.; involucre cylindrical; bracts ± 5, linear, acute, 15-20 mm long, edges membranous; calyculus bracts 2 or 3, minute; disc florets 5-12. Flowering time June-Nov., mostly Oct. Pappus of many fine, creamy, silky bristles, up to 30 mm long. Cypselae cylindrical, ± 8 mm long, papillose between ribs.
Many-stemmed, succulent shrub, up to 1(-3) m tall, leafless at flowering; stems erect or sprawling, terete or furrowed, jointed, glaucous, up to 10 mm diam. Leaves oblong-elliptic, fleshy, 15-80 x 15 mm. Flowerheads 25-203 mm subsessile, terminal and lateral corymbs, discoid, white or yellow, narrowly cylindrical, ± 5 mm diam.; involucral bracts 5 or 6, mostly 15-20 mm long. Pappus bristles, ± 20 mm long.
Glabrous succulent shrub, up to 2 m high. Branches angular. Leaves minute, linear-subulate. Heads discoid, on very short pedicels at ends of branches and axillary. Achenes hispidulous between ribs. Flowers white to cream.
A shrub. It grows 2 m tall. It is succulent. The branches are angular and grey-green. The leaves are alternate and small. They are 2-8 cm long by 1.5 cm wide.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.1 - 2.0
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Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows on rocky slopes and grassland.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 1-4
Soil texture 6-7
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Hardiness (USDA) 10-11

Usage

Uses animal food food medicinal social use
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Cultivation

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Minimum temperature (C°) 1
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Images

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Distribution

Kleinia longiflora world distribution map, present in Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Saudi Arabia, eSwatini, Tanzania, United Republic of, South Africa, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:227403-1
WFO ID wfo-0000040479
COL ID 6NKD3
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Synonyms

Othonna avasimontana Senecio viminalis Senecio longiflorus Curio avasimontanus Kleinia scottioides Senecio avasimontanus Kleinia longiflora Cineraria angulosa