| Giant groundsels | |
|---|---|
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| Dendrosenecio kilimanjari | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Subfamily: | Asteroideae |
| Tribe: | Senecioneae |
| Genus: | Dendrosenecio (Hauman ex Hedberg) B. Nord. (1978) |
| Type species | |
| Dendrosenecio johnstonii | |
| Synonyms[1][2] | |
Dendrosenecio is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family.[3][4] It is a segregate of Senecio,[1] in which it formed the subgenus Dendrosenecio.[1] Its members, the giant groundsels, are native to the higher altitude zones of ten mountain groups in equatorial East Africa,[5] where they form a conspicuous element of the flora.
- ^ a b c "Index Nominum Genericorum database". International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. Smithsonian Institution. 1978. Retrieved 2008-05-04.
- ^ Botanic Garden; Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem (1978). "Entry for Dendrosenecio". Names in Current Use for Extant Plant Genera. Freie Universität Berlin. Retrieved 2008-05-04.
- ^ Nordenstam, Rune Bertil. 1978. Opera Botanica 44: 40
- ^ Tropicos, Dendrosenecio B. Nord.
- ^ Knox, ric B.; Jeffrey D. Palmer (October 24, 1995). "Chloroplast DNA variation and the recent radiation of the giant senecios (Asteraceae) on the tall mountains of eastern Africa". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 92 (22). National Academy of Sciences: 10349–10354. Bibcode:1995PNAS...9210349K. doi:10.1073/pnas.92.22.10349. PMC 40794. PMID 7479782.