Senecio albopunctatus Bolus

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Senecio

Characteristics

Tufted subshrub, up to 400 mm tall, ± glabrous but covered in sticky resin. Leaves clustered, petiolate, mostly 40-100 x 5-15 mm, irregularly lacerate-pinnatisect, with narrow, toothed lobes tipped with callosity, margins revolute, thick-textured, resinous. Flowerheads solitary on bracteate peduncles, discoid (rarely radiate), yellow; involucre campanulate, 7-10 mm diam., bracts 10-15, 7-10 x 1-1.5 mm, glabrous-resinous, bracteoles 3-7, imbricate, lanceolate.
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Soil texture 7-9
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Germination duration (days) 10 - 21
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 23
Germination luminosity light
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Distribution

Senecio albopunctatus world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:243698-1
WFO ID wfo-0000138999
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Synonyms

Senecio albopunctatus