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Senecio L.

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Senecio L., Sp. Pl. 866 (1753)
Senecio L.

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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L.
L.
1753
866
ICN
Senecio L.
genus
Senecio

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Senecio

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Senecio L.

Capitula solitary to paniculate, heterogamous or homogamous; phyll. in 1-2 series with or without minute ones at base; receptacle flat to convex, nude to fimbrillate. Ray-florets ligulate, pistillate or neuter; disk-florets tubular, perfect. Anthers obtuse at base; style-arms of perfect florets recurved, truncate or penicillate at tips; pappus-hairs cop., smooth to barbellate or plumose. Herbs, lianes, shrubs or trees with alt. lvs. A cosmopolitan genus with over 1500 spp. of the N.Z. spp. is recorded also from Tasmania, the remainder are endemic.

Senecio L.

2n = 100
2n = 100
2n = 90
n = irregular meiosis

Senecio L.

Annual, biennial, or perennial herbs, shrubs, trees or climbers. Lvs simple, entire to pinnately or palmately toothed, lobed, or compound, alternate. Capitula in corymbs, panicles, or solitary; involucral bracts in 1 row, usually with shorter supplementary bracts subtending base of involucre. Receptacle ± flat or convex; scales 0. Outer florets ♀ and ligulate, ♀ and tubular, or ☿ and tubular; ligules usually yellow, sometimes white, pink, orange, or mauve to purple; inner florets ☿. Achenes usually ± cylindric, 5-10-ribbed, often with short antrorse hairs, sometimes glabrous, rarely dimorphic with ray achenes glabrous and disc achenes hairy; pappus present but sometimes caducous, denticulate, simple or rarely plumose.

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Senecio L.
Argentina
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Australia
Senecio L.
Australia
Queensland
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Australia
Victoria
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Bhutan
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Chile
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China
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Nepal
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New Zealand
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New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
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New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
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New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
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New Zealand
Nelson Land District
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New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
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New Zealand
Otago Land District
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New Zealand
Southland Land District
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New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
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New Zealand
Wellington Land District
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New Zealand
Westland Land District
Senecio L.
United Kingdom

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50b8a3cc-2292-4950-9623-56164120e529
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
15 May 2007
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