e-Key v3 - Mikaniopsis
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Asteraceae - Senecioneae - Mikaniopsis Milne-Redh.

Description :

  • Scandent, twining, perennial herbs or subshrubs
  • Leaves alternate, deltoid-ovate in outline, 3-5-angled or shallowly lobed, thick-textured, palmately veined, base broadly cuneate to subtruncate; petioles basally thickened and climbing, exauriculate
  • Capitula disciform, paniculate-corymbose
  • Involucre calyculate, narrowly campanulate; bracts 5-7
  • Receptacle flat, epaleate
  • Marginal florets female, similar to disc florets
  • Disc florets bisexual, fertile; corolla creamy white or pale yellow; tube cylindrical; limb campanulate, 5-lobed
  • Anthers ecalcarate, caudate; endothecial tissue radial
  • Style branches truncate, penicillate, tipped with short cone
  • Cypselas oblong, ribbed, glabrous
  • Pappus of many fine bristles
  • x = 10 (polyploidy - 1 report)

Nomenclature:

  • Mikaniopsis Milne-Redh.
    • Milne-Redhead: 27 (1956)
    • Jeffrey: 878 (1986)
    • Bremer: 505 (1994)
  • Senecio L. in part
    • Hilliard: 499 (1977)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global : Species ± 15, tropical Africa
  • Southern Africa : Species 1: Mikaniopsis cissampelina (DC.) C.Jeffrey, Northern Province, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape

References:

  • BREMER, K. 1994. Asteraceae , cladistics & classification . Timber Press, Portland, Oregon
  • HILLIARD, O.M. 1977. Compositae in Natal . University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg
  • JEFFREY, C. 1986. The Senecioneae in East Tropical Africa. Kew Bulletin 41
  • MILNE-REDHEAD, E.W.B.H. 1956. In A.W. Exell, Supplement to the Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of S. Tomé . The Trustees of the British Museum, London