Senecio niveus
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Habit
20 Feb 2018
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20 Feb 2018
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Flower
20 Feb 2018
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Full name: | Senecio niveus (Thunb.) Willd. |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Gutenbergia rangei Muschl. ex Dinter Jacobaea nivea Thunb. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Suffruticose, slender, cano-tomentose, branching, branches white-woolly, corymbiferous; leaves sessile, linear, blunt, with revolute margins, fleshy, at first albo-tomentose, becoming glabrate; corymbs few-headed, the pedicels mostly without scales; inv. sparingly calycled, of 14–16 canous scales; heads discoid, 30–40-fl.; achenes striate, canescent. 2–3 ft. high, straggling, with many long, lax, sparsely leafy branches, ending in a few corymbose heads. Tomentum sometimes very copious, sometimes scanty. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Capensis) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
