Senecio brasiliensis (Spreng.) Less.

  • Filed As

    Asteraceae
    Senecio brasiliensis (Spreng.) Less.

  • Collector(s)

    G. Eiten 6560 with Liene T. Eiten, 03 Nov 1965

  • Location

    Brazil. Rio de Janeiro. Resende Mun. Mt. Itatiaía. 200 m SSE of shelter house.

  • Habitat

    Planalto. Open rocky hillside. (The planalto is a steep hilly terrain, many hills topped with mountainous outcrops of bare sienite [cyanite?] quartz. Hillsides with frequent rounded outcropping quartz rocks & boulders, and a thin, black, almost pure humus soil supporting a periodically-burned natural tussock sedge-grassland with scattered low Chusquea bamboo & occasionally other shrubs. Lower valley sides often with dense Chusquea brakes, or brooks lined with a marsh of Cladium in tussocks or with "trunks" of massed rhizomes).

  • Description

    Plant 1½ m tall. Rays golden-yellow, disk flowers brownish-yellow. Phenology of specimen: Fertile.

  • Identifiers

    NY Barcode: 798273

    Occurrence ID: bfc916df-76cd-4e33-a641-cb16eefaf751

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  • Region

    South America

  • Country

    Brazil

  • State/Province

    Rio de Janeiro

  • County/Municipio

    Resende Mun.

  • Locality

    Mt. Itatiaía. 200 m SSE of shelter house

  • Elevation

    Alt. 2300 m. (7546 ft.)

  • Coordinates

    -22.425, -44.692

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