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Atop of Mount Kenya ''Senecio keniophytum'' is one of the endemic groundsel (Senecio) found at high altitudes in Kenya, such as the Afro-alpine zone of Mount Kenya, but not one of the giant ''Dendrosenecio'' that also live there. ==Description== A creeping perennial whose flowering branches stand "tall" at to in a land where its relatives can be tall, tough ''Senecio keniophytum'' manages to live in the same locales without dominating the landscape. ;Leaves and stems: A branching plant with tough densely white stems with leaves attached directly to them. Long and oblong leaves are a little less than long and wide with purplish bases. Leave edges have teeth and leaf surfaces have green and white hairs on the upper side and a dense matting of white hair and bald midrib on the lower side. ;Flowers: The radiate flower heads are solitary sometimes two or three together and stand up and flower stalks cottony with hairs. Bracts about to long and about diameter. A whorl of another set of eight to twelve bracts dark tipped and to long also with hairs. Twelve to twenty phyllaries also black tipped, to from densely hairy to no hair at all. Twelve to twenty bright yellow ray florets, tubes long, rays x with four veins. A dull-yellow to brown disc floret, corolla long, all hairless and expanding from the middle. ;Fruits and reproduction: Achenes long, ribbed with no hairs. Pappus long. ;Roots: A horizontal plant with stems that send shoots above and roots below.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Senecio keniophytum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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