Kleinia fulgens
| Coral senecio | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Kleinia |
| Species: | K. fulgens
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| Binomial name | |
| Kleinia fulgens | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Notonia fulgens (Hook.f.) Guillaumin | |
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.[2]
Range
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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.[3]
Description
[edit]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.[citation needed]
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.[4][better source needed]
Gallery
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Large flowering K. fulgens bush -
Side view of a flowerhead -
Detail of fruiting head
References
[edit]- ^ "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
- ^ "Kleinia fulgens". Plants of the World Online. Kew Science. Retrieved 2024-07-07.
- ^ Senecio fulgens (Hook.f.) G.Nicholson LLIFLE - Encyclopedia of living forms. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
External links
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Media related to Kleinia fulgens at Wikimedia Commons
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