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Kleinia fulgens

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Species of flowering plant

Coral senecio
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Kleinia
Species: K. fulgens
Binomial name
Kleinia fulgens
Hook.f.
Synonyms

Notonia fulgens (Hook.f.) Guillaumin
Notonia welwitschii (O.Hoffm.) Hiern
Notoniopsis fulgens (Hook.f.) B.Nord.
Senecio fulgens (Hook.f.) G.Nicholson
Senecio hookerianus H.Jacobsen
Senecio welwitschii O.Hoffm.

Kleinia fulgens, commony known as the coral senecio, 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.

Range

Detail of leaves

It is native to the countries Angola, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, as well as to KwaZulu-Natal and the Northern Provinces in South Africa.

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.

Gallery

  • Large flowering K. fulgens bush Large flowering K. fulgens bush
  • Side view of a flowerhead Side view of a flowerhead
  • Detail of fruiting head Detail of fruiting head

References

  1. "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.
  2. "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
  3. "Kleinia fulgens". Plants of the World Online. Kew Science. Retrieved 2024-07-07.
  4. Senecio fulgens (Hook.f.) G.Nicholson LLIFLE - Encyclopedia of living forms. Retrieved 15 January 2024.

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Taxon identifiers
Kleinia fulgens


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