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Senecio burchellii Dc.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Senecio

Characteristics

Softly woody shrublet, up to 400 mm tall, branching from base, ± glabrous but sometimes thinly cobwebbed. Leaves linear-lanceolate, mostly 20-80 x 1.5-5 mm, sessile and minutely serrulate-auriculate, glabrous or thinly cobwebbed and glabrescent, margins revolute and sometimes minutely and sparsely toothed, usually with axillary tufts. Flowerheads in lax corymbs with ultimate pedicels naked or sparsely scaly and 10-40 mm long, radiate, yellow; involucre campanulate, ± 5 mm diam., bracts ± 12, 5 x 1 mm, bracteoles several, imbricate, subulate-lanceolate.
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Half-woody shrublet, roughly hairy to glabrous, up to 0.5 m high. Stems erect, striate. Leaves sessile, in axillary tufts, linear, up to 50 mm long, base minutely eared and toothed, margins revolute, entire or toothed. Inflorescence few-headed, loosely corymbose or panicled or subsolitary. Capitula radiate, disc and rays (5-8) yellow; involucre ± conical; bracts ± 12, up to 6 mm long, glabrous; calyculus bracts several, small. Flowering time mainly Apr.-July. Cypselae cylindrical, 3 mm long, ribbed, hairy.
Softly woody, glabrous shrublet to 40 cm, sometimes roughly hairy below. Leaves linear, margins revolute, sometimes toothed, usually with axillary tufts. Flower heads radiate, in lax corymbs, yellow, involucres conical, calycled.
A herb.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality -
Pollination -
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Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.45
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Nitrogen fixer -
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Environment

It is a Mediterranean plant. It can grow in arid places.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture 5-6
Soil acidity -
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

The leaves are cooked and eaten as a green vegetable.
Uses food medicinal poison
Edible leaves
Therapeutic use -
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 burchellii world distribution map, present in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:244240-1
WFO ID wfo-0000028677
COL ID 4WJYD
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Senecio burchellii
WorldFloraDB 2024