Senecio brachypodus Dc.

A branching somewhat succulent scandent shrub, stems up to 1 cm diam., weak, leafy, all parts glabrous. Leaves up to 12 x 5 cm, elliptic, apex acute, base tapering to a petiole up to c. 2 cm long, margins more or less entire, repand, crenate-serrate or denticulate, occasionally more coarsely toothed or slightly angled. Heads radiate, many in congested corymbs arranged in sometimes very large corymbose panicles terminating the branches. Involucre narrowly campanulate, bracts 5-8, 3-4 mm long, about half as long as the disc, keeled, nerves resinous, calyculus bracts few, short. Rays 2-S, they and the disc bright yellow, corolla lobes with a weakly developed resinous median line. Achenes c. 3 mm, cylindric, ribbed, glabrous or hispid between the ribs.