Flora of Victoria

Erect or sprawling subshrub with stems to c. 70 cm high arising from a perennial rootstock, usually greyish-cobwebbed all over. Leaves sessile or pseudopetiolate, sometimes shortly auriculate, linear, 4–12 cm long, 2–5(–10) mm wide, entire to distantly and minutely dentate (rarely prominently toothed or shallowly and distantly lobed); upper surface sometimes minutely hispid as well as cobwebbed; lower surface usually more densely cobwebbed than upper. Inflorescence cymose or corymbose, usually with c. 2–10 capitula; capitula non-radiate; involucre plumply cylindric, 10–18 mm long, glabrous, or slightly cobwebbed near base; bracts 16–21(–33); bracteoles present; florets 50–150, bisexual and unisexual. Cypselas cylindric but long-tapered toward apex, 4.5–6 mm long, brown, densely papillose-hairy in rows; pappus of slender hairs 8–10 mm long, deciduous. Flowers Aug.–Oct.

CVU, DunT, Gold, NIS, OtP, VAlp, VVP, Wim. Also SA, Tas. In Victoria largely confined to remnant Themeda grasslands on loamy clay soils derived from basalt from near Melbourne west to Skipton area. Also known from auriferous ground near Stawell. Formerly recorded from near Horsham and Casterton, but apparently long extinct from these areas.

Source: Walsh, N.G. (1999). Senecio. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J. (eds), Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae. Inkata Press, Melbourne.

life Life

kingdom Plantae

phylum Tracheophyta

class Magnoliopsida

superorder Asteranae

order Asterales

family Asteraceae

genus Senecio

Higher taxa

species Senecio macrocarpus Belcher

Victoria

**Source:** AVH (2014). *Australia's Virtual Herbarium*, Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria, <http://avh.chah.org.au>. Find Senecio macrocarpus in AVH ; *Victorian Biodiversity Atlas*, © The State of Victoria, Department of Environment and Primary Industries (published Dec. 2014) Find Senecio macrocarpus in Victorian Biodiversity Atlas

Bioregion	Occurrence status	Establishment means
Wimmera	present	native
Victorian Volcanic Plain	present	native
Gippsland Plain	present	cultivated
Otway Plain	present	native
Goldfields	present	native
Central Victorian Uplands	present	native
Dundas Tablelands	present	native
Northern Inland Slopes	present	native
Victorian Alps	present	native

Bioregions of Victoria

State distribution

State
South Australia
New South Wales
Victoria
Tasmania

Senecio macrocarpus Belcher

Large-headed Groundsel

Victoria

State distribution