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Asteraceae - Senecioneae - Kleinia Mill.

Description:

  • Succulent perennial herbs or shrubs
  • Leaves alternate, entire or serrate-lacerate, succulent or reduced and stem then succulent
  • Capitula discoid, few or many, solitary or corymbose
  • Involucre mostly calyculate; bracts in 1 row
  • Receptacle flat, epaleate
  • Disc florets bisexual, yellow, orange or red, tubular, 5-toothed
  • Anthers ecalcarate and ecaudate; endothecial tissue radial
  • Style branches with conical to somewhat elongated, terminal appendages
  • Cypselas oblong, ribbed
  • Pappus of many fine bristles
  • x = 10 (9 - 1 report) (aneuploids)

Nomenclature:

  • Kleinia Mill.
    • Miller: [729] (1754)
    • Harvey: 315 (1865)
    • Merxmüller: 104 (1967)
    • Jeffrey: 923, 935 (1986)
    • Halliday: 22, t. 3878, 42, t. 3882, 70, t. 3888, 128, t. 3900 (1988)
    • Bremer: 504 (1994)
  • Senecio L. in part
    • Phillips: 833 (1951).
  • Notonia DC.
    • Candolle: 518 (1833).
  • Notoniopsis B.Nord.
    • Nordenstam: 69 (1978)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species ± 40, mainly in tropical Africa, also in the Middle East, India, and Sri Lanka
  • Southern Africa: Species 5, widespread

References:

  • BREMER, K. 1994. Asteraceae, cladistics & classification. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon
  • CANDOLLE, A.P. DE. 1833. In J.B.A. Guillemin, Archives de Botanique 2
  • HALLIDAY, P. 1988. Noteworthy species of Kleinia. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 39,4
  • HARVEY, W.H. 1865. Compositae. Flora capensis 3
  • JEFFREY, C. 1986. The Senecioneae in East Tropical Africa. Kew Bulletin 41
  • MERXMÜLLER, H. 1967. Asteraceae. Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika 139
  • MILLER, P. 1754. The gardener's dictionary (Abridged edition), edn 4. Rivington, London
  • NORDENSTAM, B. 1978. Taxonomic studies in the tribe Senecioneae (Compositae). Opera Botanica 44
  • PHILLIPS, E.P. 1951. The genera of South African flowering plants, edn 2. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa No. 25

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