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Senecio puberulus Dc.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Senecio

Characteristics

Annual or perennial herb, roughly grey-hairy, ± erect, much branched, up to 0.45 m high. Stems ± woody and nude below, leafy above. Leaves linear to lanceolate, ± dentate, up to 45 mm long, sessile, base stem-clasping, margins revolute. Inflorescence 1-5-headed, terminal. Capitula broadly campanulate, radiate, disc and rays (10-12 yellow; involucral bracts 18-20, 5 mm long; calyculus bracts several, short. Flowering time mainly Apr.-July. Cypselae narrowly cylindrical, ribbed, ± glabrous, 1.5 mm long.
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Herbaceus erectus parce ramosus totus fere pube brevi conferta asperulus, ramis striatis, summis paucis elongatis 1-cephalis subnudis, foliis lanceolato-linearibus denticulatis seu integerrimis acutis, inf. basi attenuatis, caeteris sessilibus, capitulis longe pedicellatis, invol. Parce calyculato 16-20-phyllo glabriusculo disco vix breviore, fl. disci 30-40, ligulis circ. 10, achaeniis teretibus striatis minutissime pubescentibus.
Life form
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Mature height (meter) 0.45
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 10 - 21
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 23
Germination luminosity light
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Distribution

Senecio puberulus world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:247120-1
WFO ID wfo-0000072957
COL ID 4WMPP
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Synonyms

Senecio hirtellus Senecio puberulus
WorldFloraDB 2024