Senecio monroi Hook.f.
Details
Senecio monroi Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part II, 333 (1855)
Nomenclature
Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1855
333
ICN
Senecio monroi Hook.f.
species
Senecio monroi
Classification
Subordinates
Descriptions
Senecio monroi Hook.f.
Much-branched shrub up to 1 m. tall; final branchlets compactly arranged, tomentose, produced into slender peduncles with foliaceous bracts bearing solitary to racemed (rarely > 3) capitula on slender bracted glandular-pubescent pedicels, us. so massed as to produced a pseudo-corymb. Lvs close-set, coriac.; lamina 2-4 cm. × 5-15 mm., narrow- to obovate-oblong, obtuse, narrowed into slender tomentose channelled petiole up to 2 cm. long; margins distinctly crenate and us. waved; glab. brownish green above, below clad in closely appressed white tomentum; midrib us. distinct. Capitula up to 2 cm. diam.; phyll. linear to linear-spathulate, acute, glandular-pubescent on back, inner with scarious tips. Ray-florets 10-15; ligules yellow, broad, spreading to recurved. Achenes 3·5 mm. long, compressed, finely grooved, hispidulous; pappus-hairs slender, up to 6 mm. long, very finely barbellate.
Taxonomic concepts
Senecio monroi Hook.f.
Senecio monroi Hook.f.
Senecio monroi Hook.f.
Senecio monroi Hook.f.
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Metadata
68bf24a4-3d24-4178-8b7b-fde10ce72185
scientific name
Names_Plants
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