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Senecio randii
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Borrowdale Common, nr cnr Lanner Ave/Teviotdale Ave
Photo: Bart Wursten
Borrowdale Common, nr cnr Lanner Ave/Teviotdale Ave
Photo: Mark Hyde
Hillside Park, Harare
Photo: Mark Hyde
Hillside Park, Harare
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Perennial herb, up to 30 cm. Stems numerous, arising from a tufted centre, slightly woolly at the very base, otherwise glabrous. Leaves irregularly serrate, linear to narrowly elliptic, 30-40 × 2-4 mm, decreasing in size upwards. Phyllaries 20-22, 4-5 mm. Rays present, bright yellow. Ovary pubescent. Achenes 1-2 mm, black, 5-angled, with hairs on the angles. |
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| Derivation of specific name: | randii: named after Dr R.F. Rand (1856-1937), English Medical doctor and early plant collector in Zimbabwe. |
| Habitat: | Forming extensive patches on black soils in vlei areas; also a colonist of cultivated areas. |
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| Flowering time: | Aug - Oct |
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| Zimbabwe distribution: | N,C,S |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Monday 8 January 2007 |
| Literature: |
Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 28. |
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