Senecio deltoideus Less.

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Upstream from Nhamadzi River crossing, Chimanimani National Reserve

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Common names:	Canary creeper (English)
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Status:	Native
Description:	Vigorous climbing herb. Leaves broadly-ovate to deltoid with a large round stipule-like lobe at the base of the petiole, discolorous, dull green and mostly hairless above, greyish silvery pubescent beneath; veins impressed above; margin coarsely and irregularly serrated. Capitula bright yellow, produced in masses of branched inflorescences.
Notes:	It is similar to Senecio tamoides and is known by the same common name. It can be distinguished by the soft leaves which are much paler on the under surface, broadly triangular in outline with very irregular lobes and dentations along the margins, giving the leaves a wrinkled and torn appearence. There are normally leaf-like false stipules present at the base of the petioles. The leaves of S. tamoides are more smooth and slightly leathery and more regularly dentate. No false stipules are present.Senecio deltoideus is a species of more open terrain, such as bracken and ericoid scrub or bush clumps in montane grassland, where it often forms masses on the ground and on lower scrub. S. tamoides is a typical constituent of the evergreen forest edge, where it acts more as a climbing species.
Derivation of specific name:	deltoideus: shaped like a triangle (referring to the leaves)
Habitat:	Among rocks in (sub)montane grassland, in the bracken ecotone between forest and grassland, riverine vegetation and along roadsides in high rainfall areas.
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Worldwide distribution:	Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Eswatini and South Africa.
Mozambique distribution:	MS(?other)
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Content last updated:	Wednesday 29 January 2020
Literature:	Beentje, H.J. & Ghazanfar, S.A. (eds.) (2005). Compositae (Part 3) Flora of Tropical East Africa Pages 625 - 626. Jeffrey, C. (1986). The Senecioneae in East Tropical Africa: Notes on Compositae: IV Kew Bulletin 41(4) Pages 886 - 887. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 28.

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