Volume IV (1988) - Flora of New Zealand Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons
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Senecio serpens

ζ*S. serpens G. Rowley

ζ*S. serpens G. Rowley ζ* has been collected once established as a cultivation escape in open scrub near houses at Church Bay, Banks Peninsula, 1987. A succulent, much-branched, glabrous, sprawling shrub; lvs glaucous, entire, subterete but compressed laterally, narrowed to base and apex, acute, 40-100 × 3-5 mm; capitula many in loose corymbs, discoid, 5-7 mm diam.; involucral bracts 8; corolla white. The sp. is often treated in Kleinia as K. repens. It appears to be self-sterile but grows readily from pieces of stem. (South Africa, 1988).

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