Curio

Curio is a genus of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. Plants in the genus are evergreen succulents with long, striated leaves and discoid flower heads lacking ray florets.

Taxonomy

The genus was described by English botanist Paul V. Heath and published in Calyx 5(4): 136, 1997.^[1] It contains over 20 species, all of them formerly belonging to the genus Senecio.^[2]

Species

• Curio acaulis (L.) P.V.Heath
• Curio archeri (Compton) P.V.Heath
• Curio articulatus (L.) P.V.Heath (Kleinia articulata)^[3]
• Curio avasimontanus (Dinter) P.V.Heath
• Curio citriformis (L.) P.V.Heath
• Curio corymbifer (DC.) Eggli
• Curio crassulifolius (DC.) P.V.Heath
• Curio cuneifolius (L.) P.V.Heath
• Curio ficoides (L.) P.V.Heath
• Curio hallianus (G.D.Rowley) P.V.Heath
• Curio herreanus (Dinter) P.V.Heath
• Curio humbertii (Guillaumin) P.V.Heath
• Curio muirii (L. Bolus) van Jaarsv.
• Curio ovoideus (Compton) P.V.Heath
• Curio × peregrinus (L.) P.V.Heath
• Curio pondoensis van Jaarsv. & A.E.van Wyk
• Curio radicans (L.) P.V.Heath
• Curio repens (L.) P.V.Heath
• Curio rowleyanus (L.) P.V.Heath
• Curio sulcicalyx (N.E.Br.) P.V.Heath
• Curio talinoides (DC.) P.V.Heath

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