Senecio pectinatus

Short description: Species of flowering plant

Senecio pectinatus

In Walls of Jerusalem National Park, Tasmania
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Asterids
Order:  | Asterales
Family:  | Asteraceae
Genus:  | Senecio
Species:  |

S. pectinatus

Binomial name
Senecio pectinatus

DC.[1]

Senecio pectinatus, commonly known as alpine groundsel, is a species of flowering plant in the aster family.[2] The species occurs in alpine areas of south-eastern Australia in peat-based soils.[3][4] It has divided leaves forming a basal rosette and produces a single yellow flower head (up to 30 mm diameter) on a stalk up to 20 cm high.[3]

Two varieties are currently recognised:

* Senecio pectinatus var. major F.Muell. ex Belcher (Victoria and New South Wales)[5][6]
* Senecio pectinatus DC. var. pectinatus (Victoria and Tasmania)[5][7] It has small leaves with the tips of the divided segments curving inwards.[4]

A white-flowering variety (Senecio pectinatus var. ochroleucus F.Muell.) was promoted to species status in 2004 as Senecio albogilvus I.Thomps.[1]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Senecio pectinatus". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra. http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?TAXON_NAME=Senecio+pectinatus.
2. ↑ "Senecio pectinatus DC.". Atlas of Living Australia. http://bie.ala.org.au/species/Senecio+pectinatus.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Senecio pectinatus (DC.) Benth.". PlantNET - New South Wales Flora Online. Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney Australia. http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Senecio~pectinatus=.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Senecio pectinatus (Asteraceae)". Key to Tasmanian vascular plants. University of Tasmania. http://www.utas.edu.au/dicotkey/dicotkey/AST/ast/sSenecio_pectinatus.htm.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Walsh N.G and V. Stajsic. Census of the Vascular Plants of Victoria (Eighth ed.). Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. ISBN 978-0-9751362-8-7. http://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/viclist. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
6. ↑ "Senecio pectinatus var. major F.Muell. ex Belcher". PlantNET - New South Wales Flora Online. Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney Australia. http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=in&name=Senecio~pectinatus.
7. ↑ "A Census of the vascular plants of Tasmania". http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/33041/Vascular_Plant_Census_2009_11.pdf.

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