Senecio crenatus Thunb.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Senecio

Characteristics

Perennial shrub or shrublet, up to 1 m high. Stems erect, subsimple, cobwebby, striate, closely leafy. Leaves ovate to obovate, up to 50 mm long, apex obtuse to acute, base tapering into petiole up to 12 mm long, margins serrulate, clearly net-veined, cobwebby to glabrous. Inflorescence a terminal, compound corymb. Capitula many, rays (4 or 5) and disc pale yellow; involucre turbinate; bracts 7-9 x 5-6 mm; calyculus bracts few, linear-lanceolate, up to 3 mm long. Flowering time mainly Apr., May. Cypselae cylindrical, 3 mm long, ribbed, thinly and shortly hairy.
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Single-stemmed, closely leafy, thinly woolly shrub to 1 m. Leaves shortly petiolate, elliptic, margins slightly revolute, closely toothed, recurved at tips. Flower heads radiate, in dense, branched corymbs, yellow, involucres calycled.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality -
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 1.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture 5-6
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 10 - 21
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 23
Germination luminosity light
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Senecio crenatus world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:244676-1
WFO ID wfo-0000139366
COL ID 4WKCX
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Senecio graminicola Senecio crenatus