Senecio incomptus Dc.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Senecio

Characteristics

Glabrous, perennial herb or shrublet, up to 0.6 m high. Stems herbaceous, rigid, much branched basally. Leaves sessile, narrowly oblong to linear-lanceolate, up to 100 mm long, margins coarsely serrate or dentate. Inflorescence ± dichotomous. Capitula discoid, yellow; involucre narrowly cylindrical; bracts 8-10, 12-13 mm long; calyculus bracts few, minute. Flowering time mainly Jan., Feb. Cypselae narrowly cylindrical, 3-4 mm long, ribbed, hairy.
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Herbaceus glaber, foliis infimis petiolatis, super. Sessilibus oblongis elongatis inciso-pinnatifidis Iobis utrinque 3-5 brevibus acutis dentatis, ramis brevibus apice 1-3-cephalis, capitulis 15-18-floris, bracteolis paucis linearibus ad basin involucri cylindrici laevis 8-10-phylli floribus paulo brevioris.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality -
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.6
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 7-8
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use Tumor (unspecified)
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 incomptus world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:245655-1
WFO ID wfo-0000096390
COL ID 4WLB7
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Senecio incomptus Senecio serratus