Senecio arborescens

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Senecio arborescens
Illustration from an old book.
Illustration from an old book.[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Senecioneae
Genus: Senecio
Species: S. arborescens
Binomial name
Senecio arborescens
Steetz in Seem.[2]
Synonyms

Baccharis halimifolia L.[3]

Senecio arborescens should be a species of the genus Senecio in the Asteraceae family, but the available information about it mostly conflicting and old.

According to the World Conservation Union, S. arborescens is a native to and widely occurring in the area ranging from Mexico to possibly Colombia.[2] John Claudius Loudon says that S. arborescens is a synonym for Baccharis halimifolia and native of the United States from "Maryland to Florida, on the sea coast" in his 1842 catalog of trees and shrubs[3] and Raymond Taylor agrees with this in his 1952 catalog of Plants of Colonial Days, which also claims that the plant is native to New Jersey and was introduced to Collinson in England from John Bartram in Cape May in 1683.[4] And a group of botanists under the discipline of Hieronymum Lentzium seem to have attempted to record the species as a Cacalia when they drew a nice image of a completely different plant for their 1737-1745 catalog.[1]


[edit] References

  1. ^ a b (1737-1745) Phytanthoza iconographia, sive, Conspectus aliquot millium : tam indigenarum quam exoticarum, ex quatuor mundi partibus longâ annorum serie indefesoque studio (HTML), 4, Sumptibus imprimebatur Ratisbonae [Regensburg] : Per Hieronymum Lentzium. QK41 .W46 1737 -45 [#914- 917]. 
  2. ^ a b Mitré, M. (1998). Senecio arborescens – Lower Risk Least Concern (HTML). 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. World Conservation Union. Retrieved on 2008-04-08.
  3. ^ a b Loudon, John Claudius [1842]. "XLII Compo'sitae: Ba'ccharis", TREES AND SHRUBS; BEING THE ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM ABRIDGED: CONTAINING THE HARDY TREES AND SHRUBS OF BRITAIN NATIVE AND FOREIGN, SCIENTIFICALLY AND POPULARLY DESCRIBED; WITH THEIR PROPAGATION, CULTURE, AND USES IN THE ARTS; AND WITH ENGRAVINGS OF NEARLY ALL THE SPECIES. (HTML), Printed for the author and sold by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1196 pages. Retrieved on 2008-04-08. 
  4. ^ Taylor, Raymond L. [1952] (1997). "Section 2", Plants of Colonial Days (HTML), Courier Dover Publications, 112 pages. ISBN 0486294048. Retrieved on 2008-04-08. 

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