Senecio brasiliensis

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Senecio brasiliensis
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Flor-das-almas growing in Rio Grande do Sul
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Senecio
Species:
S. brasiliensis
Binomial name
Senecio brasiliensis
Range of Senecio brasiliensis.svg
Native range of S. brasiliensis
Synonyms

Cineraria brasiliensisSpreng. [1]
Senecio amabilisVell.
Senecio cannabinifoliusHook.& Arn.
Senecio megapotamicusH. Buek
Senecio tripartitusDC. [2]

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Senecio brasiliensis, known by the common name flor-das-almas [1] (flower-of-souls), is a perennial species of the family Asteraceae. It is native to fields and meadows of central South America.

Description

S. brasiliensis is a densely leafy perennial herb, 1 metre (3.3 ft) to 2 metres (6.6 ft) tall, with yellow flowers that prefers to make its home in degraded pasture lands and unploughed croplands in central South America. [3] [4]

Leaves and stems: S. brasiliensis stands very upright with a branched hairless and grooved stem. The leaves are alternate, pinnate and deeply lobed [4] dark green on the top, whitish green on the underside. [5] The lower part of the plant is smooth, while the upper part is hairy and the leaves cluster at the highest point with the flower stalks (corymbs). [4]

Flowers: Yellow flowers dense on corymbs; two types of flowers (that look like [petal]s), disc florets with both male and female flowers and ray flowers which are simply female. [4]

Seeds: Small seed with white hairs that use the wind to get around with. [4]

Common names

Distribution

S. brasiliensis grows at elevations of 0 to 1,000 metres (3,300 ft).

Native: Argentina (mostly North Argentine Northwest and Gran Chaco), Bolivia, Brazil (mostly South Central), Paraguay, and Uruguay. [1] [2] [4] [6]

Current:

America
North America: Alabama, Florida [6]
South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay
Europe
South-West Europe: Portugal [7]

Predators

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Senecio brasiliensis". Germplasm Resources Information Network . Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture . Retrieved 5 March 2008.
  2. 1 2 Instituto Darwinion. "Asteraceae". Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de la República Argentina. II (in Spanish). Universidad de Buenos Aires. pp. 184, 188. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 December 2007. Retrieved 5 March 2008.
  3. 1 2 Michelli Maria Mendes; Maysa de Lima Leite; Geovan Henrique Corrêa; Julianne Milléo (20 April 2005). "Entomofauna associada ao Senecio brasiliensis Less (Asteraceae), e Phaedon confinis (Insecta; Coleoptera; Chrysomelidae) como possível agente controlador desta planta tóxica" [Entomofauna associated with Senecio brasiliensis Less (Asteraceae), and Phaedon Confinis (Insecta; Coleoptera; Chrysomelidae) as a possible controller agent of this toxic plant](PDF). Publicatio UEPG: Ciências Exatas e da Terra, Agrárias e Engenharias (in Portuguese). 11 (3): 45–53. hdl:123456789/625 . Retrieved 5 March 2008. Phaedon confinis Klug, 1829 (Chrysomelidae) was the one that most stood out, specially because it was found in great numbers on the plant
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Claudio Barros; Elissa Totin; Raquel Rech; Marcia Ilha; Steve Valeika (March 2001). "Senecio spp". Lista de Plantas (in Portuguese). Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. Archived from the original on 21 February 2008. Retrieved 5 March 2008.
  5. 1 2 Centro de Informação Toxicológica do Rio Grande do Sul. "Senecio brasiliensis Less. – Maria-mole" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 6 March 2008.
  6. 1 2 3 Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). "PLANTS Profile, Senecio cannabinifolius Hook. & Arn". The PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture . Retrieved 6 March 2008.
  7. ↑ Dana, E.D.; Verloove, F.; Alves, P.; Heiden, G. (2021). "Senecio brasiliensis (Spreng.) Less. (Asteraceae), another potentially invasive alien species in Europe". BioInvasions Records. 10 (3): 521–536. doi: 10.3391/bir.2021.10.3.02 .
  8. ↑ de Oliveira, Émerson D.M.; Pasini, Amarildo; Fonseca, Inês C.B. (January 2003). "Association of the soil bug Atarsocoris sp. (Hemiptera: Cydnidae) with the weed Senecio brasiliensis Less". Neotropical Entomology. 32 (1): 155–157. doi: 10.1590/S1519-566X2003000100024 . 1519566X.

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