Senecio maranguensis

Taxobox


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regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Asterales
familia = Asteraceae
subfamilia = Asteroideae
tribus = Senecioneae
genus = "Senecio"
species = "S. maranguensis"
binomial = "Senecio maranguensis"
binomial_authority = O.Hoffm.cite web
url = http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/bd/africa/details.php?langue=an&id=98735
title = "Senecio maranguensis" O.Hoffm. record n°98735
accessdate = 2008-05-08
format = HTML
work = African Plants Database
publisher = South African National Biodiversity Institute, the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and Tela Botanica ]
synonyms ="Senecio hageniae" R.E.Fr. "Senecio jugicola" S.Moore "Senecio psiadioides" O.Hoffm. "Senecio roccatii" Chiov. "Senecio scrophulariifolius" O.Hoffm. "Senecio subcarnosulus" De Wild.
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"Senecio maranguensis" a a 2 meter (6 foot) woody shrubcite web
url = http://www.systbot.unizh.ch/datenbanken/rwenzori/Rwenzori_desktop.pdf
title = Common plants of the Rwenzori, particularly the upper zones
accessdate = 2008-05-06
author = H. Peter Linder and Berit Gehrke
authorlink = University of Zurich
date = 2 March 2006
format = HTML
publisher = Institute for Systematic Botany, University of Zurich] or 6 meter (20 feet) climbing shrub from the family Asteraceae and species of the genus "Senecio"cite web
url = http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.AP.FLORA.FTEA006393
title = Entry for Senecio maranguensis O.Hoffm. [family COMPOSITAE]
accessdate = 2008-05-11
author = Aluka
authorlink = Aluka
format = HTML
work = African Plants
doi = 10.5555/AL.AP.FLORA.FTEA006393
publisher = Ithaka Harbors, Inc] which makes its home at the same altitudes as the bamboo on the slopes of the mountains in East Africa.

Description

"Senecio maranguensis" lives in the bamboo and forest clearings as a 2 meter tall woody shrub, but can have a tendency to climb when growing in the forests, reaching to 6 meters tall.

;Stems and leaves: Long, leafy and flexible stems that are covered with soft fine or cobweb like hairs or hairless and are sometimes tinged purple or red. Leafs are leathery, oval with pointed tips 3 to 17 centimeters (1 to 6 inches) long and 1 to 6 centimeters (less than an inch and more than two inches) wide with teeth on the edges and not hairy except for on the midrib and main vein. The old leaves tend to wither and droop without falling off. The petiole is 2 to 3 millimeters long has sparse hairs or none at all.

;Flowers:"Capitula radiate" or "flower heads with yellow ray florets". Numerous flower heads that appear congested to lax in spreading terminal compound clusters that start at different places but end making a flat surface with the others. Flower stalks have hairs. Involcre is 3 to 5 millimeters long and about 2 millimeters in diamter. Pale to bright yellow ray florets and 4 veined spreading disc florets that turn red brown.

;Fruits: Ribbed achenes 2 millimeters long and without hairs. Pappus 3.5 millimeters long.

Distribution

A common shrub in altitudes between 1,800 to 3,250 meters (5,900 to 10,700 feet) in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda including the Aberdare Mountains, the Ruwenzori Mountains and Kilimanjaro.

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