Senecio ilicifolius L.

Species

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Characteristics

Perennial herb or subshrub, erect, up to 1 m high. Stems rigid, leafy, cobwebby. Leaves sessile, oblong-lanceolate, up to 65 mm long, acute, base clasping, auriculate, margins acutely and coarsely toothed, revolute; glabrous to scabrid, green above, white-cobwebby below. Inflorescence a much-branched, spreading corymb. Capitula many, radiate, disc and rays (± 12) yellow; involucre campanulate; bracts 12-15, 4-5 mm long; calyculus bracts many, small. Flowering time mainly Sept.-Nov. Cypselae cylindrical, ribbed, 2.5 mm long, ± hairy.
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Thinly white-woolly, softly woody, short-lived shrub to 1 m. Leaves discolorous, oblong, sharply toothed, margins revolute, thickly white-woolly below. Flower heads radiate, in lax corymbs, yellow, involucres calycled, ± 5 mm long.
Life form perennial
Growth form
Growth support free-standing
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Mature height (meter) 1.0
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Environment

Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture 1-2
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

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Edible -
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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Images

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Distribution

Senecio ilicifolius world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:245622-1
WFO ID wfo-0000020186
COL ID 6YGT3
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Senecio quercifolius Senecio ilicifolius