Kleinia_saginata_2-06082024 © OBG
Kleinia_saginata_3-06082024 © OBG
Kleinia_saginata_4-06082024 © OBG
Kleinia_saginata_5-06082024 © OBG
Kleinia_saginata_6-06082024 © OBG
Kleinia_saginata_7-06082024 © OBG
Kleinia_saginata-06082024 © OBG
Succulent perennial ; up to 40 cm high , glabrous . Stems erect , sometimes decumbent , thick , green , cylindrical , stout , up to ± 3–4 cm in diameter , jointed ; nodes raised to prominent mounds , becoming less prominent with age , and with 5–7 deeper or purplish green radiating lines . Leaves only on young shoots , up to 3 × 1 cm , often tinged red , small , soon falling leaving white scares , elliptic or linear-lanceolate to linear-spathulate , acute , somewhat fleshy . Inflorescences in solitary heads on long stalks at the end of the stem . Flowers ± 30–60 , bright red , perfect , tubular . Fruit achenes , ± 3 mm long , oblong , with white hair . Seeds pappus , 16–19 mm long , of numerous barbellate , white bristles . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
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Near Endemic (NE) - Near Threatened (NT) - Global Assessment
Rare
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Senecio mweroensis subsp. saginatus (P.Halliday) G.D.Rowley
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Kleinia
In Omani studies: Miller & Morris (1988) wrote that: "Medicinally, this plant had various uses, but the most important of them was its efficacy as a haemostatic [DA: kuta' dam]. The body of the plant was crushed , sometimes after preliminary heating or scorching over a fire to make the juice more easy to extract and then was squeezed, and the expressed juice put on a fresh wound or open cut. Fresh juice was also put in the eye to ivari redness and inflammation and as a remedy for an infected or damaged eye. The juice of the plant also played a major role in the popular game: children out herding would collect some of the juice of this plant and also some juice from the aloe, Aloe dhufarensis, [J: tuf], and let drops from both fall onto the palm of the hand. All present would then gather round and
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*Ghazanfar, S. (2015). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.3: Loganiaceae – Asteraceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 9789082352511 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *https://www.inaturalist.org *Miller, A., Morris, M. (1988). Plants of Dhofar, the Southern Region of Oman: Traditional, Economic, and Medicinal Uses. Published by Office of the Adviser for Conservation of the Environment, Diwan of Royal Court, Sultanate of Oman; ISBN 10: 0715708082 ISSN 13: 9780715708088. *Patzelt, A. (2015). Oman Plant Red Data Book. Published by Diwan of Royal Court, Sultanate of Oman. Oman Botanic Garden Publication No. 1. ISBN 978-99969-50-10-0. *Pickering, H. Patzelt, A. (2008). Field Guide to the Wild Plants of Oman. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. ISBN 9781842461778. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
