Senecio kleinia

Taxobox
name="Kleinia neriifolia"


image_width = 260px
image_caption = Verode
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Asterales
familia = Asteraceae
subfamilia = Asteroideae
tribus = Senecioneae
genus = "Kleinia"
species = "K. neriifolia"
binomial = "Kleinia neriifolia"
binomial_authority = Haw.
synonyms = "Senecio kleinia" Less.
range_

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range_map_caption = Native range of "S. Kleinia".

"Kleinia neriifolia" also known as Verode or Berode and previously known as "Senecio kleinia" is one of flowering plant species of the genus "Kleinia" and in the daisy family (Asteraceae). It is native endemic to the Canary Islands and it used to be in the genus "Senecio"

Description

One of the succulentcite book
last = Warming
first = Eugenius
authorlink = Eugenius Warming
title = Oecology of Plants
origyear = 1909
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=aKXsiOsqlp0C
format = HTML
date = 1977
publisher = Ayer Publishing
location = 300 Bedford Street, Manchester, NH
isbn = 0405104235
chapter = 32 Storage of Water by Land Plants
chapterurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=aKXsiOsqlp0C&pg=PA123&lpg=PA123] "Senecio", "S. kleinia" has articulated branches (constrictions that make them look like rows of sausages)cite web
url = http://www.canaryislandflora.com/arid.htm
title = Canary Islands Flora - Arid Habitat
accessdate = 2008-03-02
format = HTML] and thick, stubby, elongated leaves which rest directly on the main stem or branch without a petiole or footstalk. Leaves growing clustered in crowded circles at the tops of the branches. Trunk a meter high, and lanceolate leaves up to convert|12|cm|in|sigfig=1|lk=on long. Fragrant grey white flowers, blooms at any time between March and October. Deciduous, the leaves fall at the beginning of the dry season.cite web
url = http://digilander.libero.it/cacti/PL012.htm
title = LE PIANTE - Senecio kleinia
accessdate = 2008-03-02
author = Elio Darcangeli
format = HTML
work = PIANTE GRASS and SUCCULANTS
language = it icon] As with most arid habitat plants, reproduction is by reseeding only..

Habitat

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quote = ...these plants almost seem to live on air, yet they attain a considerable size; filled with sap they hang down in all their beauty from jagged rock, at first sight seeming to be purely superficial, but in reality sending their roots into crevices, and abstracting the water retained there by capillarity.
source =Eugenius Warming, 1909
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Berode grows abundantly in the Tabaibal-Cardonal zone or the arid, subtropical with steep and eroded substrates which are more pronounced and dominant in the eastern archipelago.cite journal
authorlink =Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid
coauthors = S. Rivas Goday y F. Esteve Chueca
title = Ensayo fitosociológico de la "Crassi-Euphorbieta" macaronesica y estudio de los tabaibales y cardonales de Gran Canaria
journal = Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid
volume =22
issue =1
pages = 221–339
language = es icon
publisher = Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid
location = Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid
url = http://www.rjb.csic.es/pdfs/Anales_22(1)_221_339.pdf
accessdate = 2008-03-02] The vegetation can be compared with that of the arid areas of Sudan, Ethiopia, Arabia and Iran and is typical of the steppe in the African continent.

Observations have been made about the relationships or communities that are formed between plants in such challenging conditions. In the case of the Canary Islands, the dominant Succulent tree ("Euphorbia canariensis") with a supporting community of fellow halophiles: Verode ("Senecio kleinia"), Salt ("Schizogyne sericea"), Orijama ("Cneorum pulverulentum"), the Rubiaceae "Balo" ("Plocama pendula") and also Tasaigo "typical" ("Ruta fruticosa"). It is indisputable that the tabaibales and cardonales are not climax (the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding), but more like stadiums (a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments) or tesserae degradation of a former climax in harmony with its peculiar arid climate. For topographical position of cardonales, always in displaced situations, and the more open and typical serial or subserial of tabaibales, it seems close to the first climax potential. Species that are integrating communities also inclined to such subordination.

Horticulture

The plant is used in gardens with dry conditions. The plant requires a minimum exposure of the sun. The minimum winter temperature it can endure is convert|-2|°C|°F|sigfig=2.

"S. Kleinia" has been successfully cultivated as a houseplant and as landscaping. It is on a list of suggested fire safe landscaping.cite web
url = http://plumasfiresafe.org/Documents/treenote17.fire%20resits%20plant.3.pdf
title = Tree Notes
accessdate = 2008-03-02
author = Jeanette Knutson-Pedersen
authorlink = California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
year = 2005
month = July
format = PDF
work = Fire Safe Landscaping
publisher = Plumas Fire Safe Council ]

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