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| Status: | Doubtful |
| Description: |
Usually a herbaceous climber with thick succulent, glabrous stems, sometimes a weakly erect herb or shrub. Leaves 4.5-7 × 1.5-3 cm, glabrous, elliptic or obovate; base attenuate into a weakly defined petiole up to 3.5 cm; apex acute; margin irregularly serrate. Inflorescence a branched corymbose panicle. Capitula usually radiate, less often without rays. Phyllaries 3-4 mm. Rays (if present) yellow. Ovary hairy. |
| Type location: |
Yemen |
| Notes: | Specimens of this species could not be found in SRGH on 11 January 2007. The FZ treatment could not find any specimens from Zimbabwe either and expresses doubt about its possible occurrence in Zimbabwe. |
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| Habitat: | Scrambling over bushes on termite mounds and by rivers |
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| Worldwide distribution: | From Yemen southwards into NE Africa and southwards to Zimbabwe? |
| FZ divisions: | C,E |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Sunday 14 January 2007 |
| Literature: |
Hind, D.J.N., Beentje, H.J. & Loeuille, B.F.P. (2026). Compositae - Senecioneae Flora Zambesiaca 6(4) Page 67. Jeffrey, C. (1986). The Senecioneae in East Tropical Africa: Notes on Compositae: IV Kew Bulletin 41(4) Page 898. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 28. Ntore, S. & al. (2024). Checklist of the vascular plants of Burundi Page 71. |