Senecio inaequidens
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Habit
27 Apr 2008
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Flower
15 Jun 2008
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Flower
21 Mar 2008
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Habit
21 Mar 2008
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Habit
30 Jun 2011
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Flower
30 Jun 2011
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Full name: | Senecio inaequidens DC. |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Geelopslag, Sprinkaanbos |
| English common name(s): | Canary weed, Narrow-leaved ragwort, South African ragwort, Ragwort |
| Synonym(s): | - |
| Status: | Alien |
| Description: | Herbaceous, erect, paniculately branched, nearly glabrous; stem and branches angle-striate; cauline leaves clasping and often eared at base, linear, acute, with revolute margins, some pinnatifid with 2–4 pair of short, spreading lobes, some unequally and coarsely toothed, and others denticulate, the teeth inflexed; inf. very lax, subcorymbose, the pedicels very long and nearly nude, spreading; inv. calycled, glabrous, of about 20 scales; disc-fl. 60–70, rays 10; achenes closely puberulous. Root fibrous, much-branched; possibly annual. Stems 1–2 ft. high, much-branched, the branches spreading. Leaves 1.5 in. long, 2–3 l. wide, very variable in their toothing or lobes, but always with revolute edges. Of Drege's plant I have only seen a scrap (in Hb. Sd.) which seems the same as Zeyher's, here described. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Capensis) Senecio inaequidens is a perennial shrubby herb (usually chamaephyte) about 60 cm high. The plant consists of a highly branched stem, woody at its base, with many, mostly slender, linear leaves (1 to 7 mm in width), and lemon-yellow flower heads attaining up to 25 mm in diameter. The species displays a fair amount of variability in leaf shape and width (inaequidens = heterodont, cf. Adolphi 1997). (from NOBANIS - Invasive Alien Species Fact Sheet) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iSpot Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Content last updated: | 21 Mar 2018 |
