Senecio consanguineus
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Full name: | Senecio consanguineus DC. |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Bankrotbos, Radiatorbossie, Hongerbos-senecio, Sprinkaanbossie |
| English common name(s): | Starvation senecio, Ragwort |
| Synonym(s): | - |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Herbaceous, erect, branched; stem terete, minutely puberulous; leaves glabrous, membranaceous, sessile, ear-clasping, pinnatipartite, the lobes on each side 5–6, oblong, obtuse, sinuate-toothed, some of the lower ones petioled, exauriculate; corymb loosely few-headed; pedicels long, nude; inv. nude at base, 10-leaved, scarcely puberulous, not torulose, equalling the disc; disc-fl. about 20, rays 5, minute, revolute; achenes terete, pubescent. DC. l. c. Stems in var. ß. 1–1.5 feet, fistular, striate, minutely scaberulous. Leaves 1.5 inch long, subpetiolate, deeply pinnatifid, the lobes in several pairs, horizontal, oblong, sharply and unequally toothed or biserrate. Corymb rather close. Inv. scales sparsely hispid, flat. Achenes pubescent. I have not seen var. a. (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 |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 14 Dec 2008 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | PowerShot A700 |
| Lens aperture: | f/4.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/160 s |
| ISO speed: | - |
| Content last updated: | 01 Jun 2020 |
