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Senecio dunedinensis Belcher

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Senecio dunedinensis Belcher, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 43: 56 (1956)
Senecio dunedinensis Belcher

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Endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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Belcher
Belcher
1956
56
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Senecio dunedinensis Belcher
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Senecio dunedinensis

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dunedinensis

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Stock simple or shortly branched, giving rise annually to 1 or 2 erect simple sulcate stems up to ± 6 dm. tall and c. 5 mm. diam. at rather woody base; branches 0 or few, near infl. Lower lvs rather crowded, spreading, submembr., c. 9-10 × 1 cm., linear to narrow-spathulate to lanceolate-oblong, glab. or nearly so when mature, obtuse, entire or distantly minutely denticulate. Petiole very short, or sts ± = lamina, semiamplexicaul, not or minutely auricled. Mid laminae suberect, ± 6 cm. × 3 mm., linear-lanceolate to linear, us. entire; upper laminae merging into bracts of infl. Infl. laxly subcorymbose, capitula c. 6 mm. long, 5 mm. diam., ∞ to few. Calyculus of few to several minute bracteoles. Phyll. c. 12, 4-5 mm. long, linear, margins hyaline. Florets with teeth thickened slightly at tips; ♀ 4-toothed, perfect 5-toothed. Achenes (1)-2-3 mm. long, subfusiform, finely grooved, hispidulous on ridges only. Pappus-hairs fine, white, 5-8 mm. long.

Senecio dunedinensis Belcher

Erect, annual or short-lived perennial herb. Mid cauline lvs usually almost glabrous on both surfaces when mature, sometimes sparsely white-lanate on upper surface and moderately white-lanate on lower, apetiolate, narrow-elliptic or narrowly elliptic-obovate to linear, usually remotely denticulate, rarely entire, usually revolute, not amplexicaul and without lobes at base, 40-100 × 3-9 mm. Uppermost lvs smaller, usually linear and often lanate, especially on lower surface. Supplementary bracts 3-5-(6), 1-2 mm long. Involucral bracts 12-13, glabrous to sparsely lanate, 4.5-5.5 mm long. Ray florets 0. Disc greenish yellow, 2-3 mm diam. Achenes subcylindric, narrowed to and slightly constricted below apex, usually with 2-3 rows of hairs mostly on the ribs, sometimes almost evenly hairy, c. 2.5 mm long.

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Erechtites diversifolia Petrie
Senecio dunedinensis Belcher
Erechtites diversifolia Petrie
Senecio dunedinensis Belcher
Erechtites quadridentata var. lanceola Kirk
Senecio dunedinensis Belcher
Senecio dunedinensis Belcher
Senecio dunedinensis Belcher
Senecio dunedinensis Belcher
Senecio dunedinensis Belcher
Senecio dunedinensis Belcher
Senecio dunedinensis Belcher
Senecio dunedinensis Belcher
Senecio dunedinensis Belcher
Senecio dunedinensis Belcher
Senecio dunedinensis Belcher
Senecio dunedinensis Belcher
Senecio dunedinensis Belcher
Senecio dunedinensis Belcher
Senecio dunedinensis Belcher
Senecio dunedinensis Belcher
Senecio dunedinensis Belcher
Senecio dunedinensis Belcher

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Senecio dunedinensis Belcher
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Senecio dunedinensis Belcher
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Senecio dunedinensis Belcher
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Senecio dunedinensis Belcher
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
16 June 2006
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