Senecio rosmarinifolius L.F.

Species

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Characteristics

Erect or sprawling shrublet, with softly woody stems, up to 1 m tall, mostly single-stemmed and branching near base, thinly white-woolly when young but glabrescent. Leaves linear-lanceolate, mostly 20-80 x 1.5-5 mm, sessile and minutely serrulate-auriculate, thinly woolly but glabrescent, especially above, margins revolute and sometimes minutely and sparsely toothed, usually with axillary tufts. Flowerheads in dense, subumbellate clusters on branched corymbs, ultimate pedicels bracteolate and 3-5 mm long, with adjacent heads ± touching, radiate, yellow; involucre campanulate, ± 3 mm diam., bracts 12-15, ± 3 x mm, bracteoles 5-7, imbricate, subulate.
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Shrubby, rounded perennial, up to 1 m high, ± glabrous to whitish cobwebby. Stems erect, branched, leafy. Leaves in axillary tufts, linear to linear-lanceolate, sessile, up to 80 mm long, margins revolute, entire or denticulate. Inflorescence densely corymbose, many-headed. Capitula radiate, disc and rays (8-10) yellow; involucre campanulate; bracts 12-15, 3 mm long; calyculus bracts several, minute. Flowering time mainly Nov.-Apr. Cypselae cylindrical, 1.5 mm long, hairy on ribs.
Rounded, softly woody, thinly white-woolly shrublet to 80 cm. Leaves linear, margins revolute, sometimes toothed, usually in axillary tufts. Flower heads radiate, in dense clusters on branched corymbs, yellow, involucres calycled.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality -
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Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 1.0
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Nitrogen fixer -
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Environment

Light -
Soil humidity 1-12
Soil texture 5-6
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
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Productivity -

Distribution

Senecio rosmarinifolius world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:247343-1
WFO ID wfo-0000024962
COL ID 4WMWH
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Senecio rigescens Senecio linifolius Senecio longifolius Senecio bergianus Aster linifolius Jacobaea rosmarinifolia Jacobaea rigescens Senecio cristatus Senecio rosmarinifolius Senecio asper