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Senecio skirrhodon DC.

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Senecio skirrhodon DC., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 6, 401 (1838)
Senecio skirrhodon DC.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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401
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Senecio skirrhodon DC.
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Senecio skirrhodon

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skirrhodon

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Senecio skirrhodon DC.

Ascending, annual or short-lived perennial herb, 15-50 cm tall. Stems glabrous, much-branched above and below, sometimes becoming ± leafless and woody toward base. Cauline lvs usually glabrous or with scattered hairs on midvein below and ciliate at base, apetiolate (cuneately narrowed to short petiole in lowermost lvs), fleshy, pale to mid green, oblanceolate to narrow- obovate, mostly entire and slightly involute, sometimes serrulate and often some lvs serrate or pinnatisect with 2-4 incisions on each side, acute and mucronate, cuneate to amplexicaul base, 20-60 × 2-10-(15) mm; venation palmate. Uppermost lvs smaller, often lanceolate and more often amplexicaul. Capitula solitary or few in corymbs. Supplementary bracts 9-17, narrow- triangular, 2-3 mm long. Involucral bracts 18-23, linear, glabrous, 5-7 mm long. Ray florets 11-16; ligules bright yellow, (5.5)-7-13 mm long. Disc golden yellow. Achenes subcylindric, constricted below apex, usually with (2)-3-(6) rows of hairs in grooves between broad ribs, sometimes glabrous, 1.6-2.2 mm long; pappus 3-5 mm long.

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Senecio skirrhodon DC.
Senecio skirrhodon DC.
Senecio skirrhodon DC.
Senecio skirrhodon DC.
Senecio skirrhodon DC.
Senecio skirrhodon DC.
Senecio skirrhodon DC.
Senecio skirrhodon DC.

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Senecio skirrhodon DC.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Senecio skirrhodon DC.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Senecio skirrhodon DC.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Senecio skirrhodon DC.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Senecio skirrhodon DC.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Senecio skirrhodon DC.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Senecio skirrhodon DC.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Senecio skirrhodon DC.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Senecio skirrhodon DC.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Senecio skirrhodon DC.
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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1 January 2000
16 June 2006
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