Senecio littoreus Thunb.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Senecio

Characteristics

Erect annual, up to 600 mm tall, glabrescent or puberulous with a mix of glandular and acute hairs. Leaves obovate to oblanceolate, mostly 20-80 mm long, variously toothed or incised to pinnatisect, upper sessile and often auriculate, lower narrowed below and subpetiolate. Flowerheads radiate, in loose corymbs, yellow; involucre cylindrical-campanulate, 5-7 mm diam., conspicuously calycled, bracts and bracteoles black-tipped, bracts 10-12, 5-6 x ± 1 mm, bracteoles imbricate, 5-7, lanceolate and arachnose-ciliate.
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Erect, glabrescent to shortly hairy annual to 40 cm. Leaves obovate to oblanceolate, toothed to slightly pinnatifid, sometimes auriculate at base. Flower heads radiate, in lax, terminal corymbs, yellow, involucre calycled.
Life form annual
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 5-6
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
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 -

Images

Leaf

Senecio littoreus leaf picture by Maarten Vanhove (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Senecio littoreus flower picture by Maarten Vanhove (cc-by-sa)
Senecio littoreus flower picture by Maarten Vanhove (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Senecio littoreus world distribution map, present in Comoros, Mozambique, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77181520-1
WFO ID wfo-0000001310
COL ID 4WLQG
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Senecio littoreus Senecio regularis Senecio heterophyllus Senecio littoreus var. littoreus

Lower taxons

Senecio littoreus var. hispidulus