Kleinia longiflora
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Plant with flowers
21 Sep 2008
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Flower
21 Sep 2008
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Habit (dry season)
22 Sep 2008
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Habit (rainy season)
05 Mar 2009
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Habit
25 May 2006
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Full name: | Kleinia longiflora DC. |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Sambokbossie, Sjambokbossie, Sjambokbos, Sambokbos |
| English common name(s): | Sjambok bush |
| Synonym(s): | Senecio longiflorus (DC.) Sch.Bip. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Glabrous; stem shrubby, fleshy, much-branched; branches mult-angular (furrowed when dry); leaves distant, minute, linear-subulate, fleshy; peduncles 3–5 at the ends of the branches, much shorter than the involucres, bearing 2–4 scattered, subulate bracts; inv. cylindrical, of 5, linear, acute, margined, rigid scales, half as long as the corollas; flowers 5 in the head, perfect; achenes elongate, cylindrical, multistriate, rigidly hispidulous between the ribs; pappus longer than the corolla. Two feet or more high, much-branched; the branches 3–4 lines diameter, prismatically angled. Leaves 3–4 lines long (perhaps longer on young shoots), scale-like. Peduncles 0.25 and 0.333 inch long. Inv. scales 8–9 lines long. Pappus twice as long, pale-creamy, silky, copious. (from JSTOR website / Flora Capensis) An erect glabrous fleshy rigid perennial, shrubby, much-branched, 1.5–2 ft. high. Stem and branches angular. Leaves scale-like, distant, subulate, 0.25– 0.333 in. long. Capitula subcylindrical, 1–1.5 in. long, narrow, on stout peduncles of 0.25– 0.333 in., 2–5 together terminating the branches and short lateral shoots. Calyculus consisting of a few minute scales or obsolete. Involucral bracts 5–6, linear, tapering upwards, striate, 0.5– 0.75 in. long. Florets all tubular, hermaphrodite, 5–10, about double the length of the involucre. Achenes costate, subcylindrical, ranging up to 0.333 in. long, setulose between the ribs. Receptacle alveolate, fimbrillate; fimbrillæ caducous, short. (from JSTOR website / Flora of Tropical Africa) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie |
| Content last updated: | 22 Nov 2011 |
