Kleinia fulgens

Coral senecio
Scientific 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 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]

Description

It is a perennial herbaceous plant with a rather soft stem and succulent leaves, extensive, up to 60 cm long,^{[dubious – discuss]} 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.^[3]

Gallery

Large flowering Kleinia fulgens bush]]
Detail of Kleinia fulgens leaves
Side view of a flowerhead

References

^ "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
^ Senecio fulgens (Hook.f.) G.Nicholson LLIFLE - Encyclopedia of living forms. Retrieved 15 January 2024.

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[afpd-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.

[sntc-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] Senecio fulgens (Hook.f.) G.Nicholson LLIFLE - Encyclopedia of living forms. Retrieved 15 January 2024.

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