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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Kleinia |
| Species: | K. fulgens |
| Binomial name | |
| Kleinia fulgens | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Notonia fulgens (Hook.f.) Guillaumin | |
Kleinia fulgens is a species of flowering plant in the genus Kleinia and the family Asteraceae native to Southern Africa, which used to be of the genus Senecio.[2]
Description
It is a perennial herbaceous plant with a rather soft stem and succulent leaves, extensive, up to 60 cm long, without long hair. Leaves narrow down to the base of the wings, oval with prominent triangular pointed teeth, total length up to 15 cm x 5 cm wide.
There are few flowerheads which resemble a thistle; involucral bracts few, very unequal in width, membranous with border, up to 2 cm long; disk 2.5 cm in diameter; without rays, corolla crimson, scarlet or cherry in colour. The flowers appear from late autumn to winter.[3]
References
- ↑ "Kleinia fulgens record n° 101881". African Plants Database. South African National Biodiversity Institute, the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and Tela Botanica. Archived from the original on 2013-01-15. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
- ↑ "Species Information: Kleinia fulgens Hook.f." Swaziland's Flora Database. Archived from the original on 2011-06-14. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
Compton's Flora of Swaziland
- ↑ Senecio fulgens (Hook.f.) G.Nicholson LLIFLE - Encyclopedia of living forms. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
External links
Media related to Kleinia fulgens at Wikimedia Commons