Family | ASTERACEAE |
Genus species | Culcitium oligocehalum Cabrera trib. Senecioneae |
Synonyms | Senecio keshna Cabrera |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Altitude | 4000-5000m |
Description | densely yellowish tomentose, leaves long petiolate, ovate-elliptic, obtuse, 6-10cm, upper leaves smaller, sessile, capitula discoid, 2-8, pendent, terminal |
Size | 10-25cm |
Color | yellow |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | tuft |
Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 16-21°C division in early spring and fall; cuttings in late summer |
Territory |
Southern America
Southern South America (Argentina Northwest) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | ASTERACEAE
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