Senecio albanensis Dc.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Senecio

Characteristics

Stout, tufted, thinly white-woolly perennial to 80 cm, basal leaves sometimes dead at flowering, petiolate, oblanceolate, finely serrate, margins revolute. Flower heads radiate, in lax corymbs on leafy scapes, yellow, involucres conspicuously calycled.
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A herb. There are 2 varieties.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Environment

It is a subtropical plant. It can grow in arid places.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The leaves are cooked as a spinach.
Uses food medicinal
Edible leaves
Therapeutic use Colic (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 10 - 21
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 23
Germination luminosity light
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Distribution

Senecio albanensis world distribution map, present in eSwatini and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:243678-1
WFO ID wfo-0000062572
COL ID 6YFN4
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Senecio albanensis Senecio leiocarpus Senecio albanensis var. albanensis

Lower taxons

Senecio albanensis var. doroniciflorus