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Senecio reptans Turcz.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Senecio

Characteristics

Perennial herb, stoloniferous; flowering stems up to 100 mm high, simple, erect, short, harshly glandular-pubescent; leafy below. Leaves: blade of basal leaves linear-oblong, ± 25-50 x 3 mm, apex obtuse, margins inciso-dentate or subpinnatifid, petiolate, glabrous; stem leaves smaller, sessile. Heads radiate, solitary. Involucral bracts 18-20, ± 7 mm long, slightly shorter than disc florets, glandular; calyculus bracts few, short. Flowers: ray florets ± 8-10; ray and disc florets yellow; Aug.-Jan., May, Jun. Fruit with cypsela (and ovary) puberulous.
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Perennial herb, ± glabrous, stoloniferous, stolons prostrate, rooting. Stems ascending, simple, leafy below, up to 0.15 m high. Leaves in tufts at stolon tips, radical leaves many, shortly petiolate, linear-oblong, deeply dentate, up to 35 mm long; cauline leaves sessile, linear, entire to crenate, up to 12 mm long Capitula solitary, terminal, radiate, disc and rays yellow, rays 6-8, short; involucre campanulate; bracts 18-20, 7 mm long; calyculus bracts few, minute. Flowering time Aug.-Dec. Cypselae cylindrical, 4 mm long, ribbed, hairy.
Perennial herb, up to 100 mm tall. Radical leaves linear-oblong, obtuse, inciso-dentate or subpinnatifid, petiolate, glabrous; cauline leaves smaller, sessile. Heads solitary, radiate; involucral bracts 18-20. Achenes puberulous. Flowers yellow.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality -
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Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.1
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Flower color
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture 5-8
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 -
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -

Distribution

Senecio reptans world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:247268-1
WFO ID wfo-0000121134
COL ID 6YGVZ
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Senecio reptans
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