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  • COMMON NAME: Senecio
  • ARABIC: صفيره
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Senecio breviflorus (Kadereit) Greuter
  • SYNONYMS: S. flavus
  • FAMILY: ASTERACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production. Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP).
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:245138-1 Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.
Honey nectar plants.
Glabrous, more or less fleshy, annual herb, up to 40 cm high. Stem erect, often dark reddish, forked, much branched. Leaves simple, the lower ovate-oblong, toothed, short-petioled; stem leaves cordate-clasping at base, often wider than long, dentate. Heads 5-9 mm in diameter, in a lax corymb. Florets yellow, hardly exceeding the involucre. Involucre 6-9 mm long. Achenes 2-4 mm long, hairy. Pappus caducous, linger than achenes. Flowering from February-March.
Among rocks, sandy soil near the coastal regions and wadi beds.
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