Kleinia fulgens

Coral senecio
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Genus:	Kleinia
Species:	K. fulgens
Binomial name
Kleinia fulgens Hook.f.
Synonyms[1]
Notonia fulgens (Hook.f.) Guillaumin Notonia welwitschii (O.Hoffm.) Hiern Notoniopsis fulgens (Hook.f.) B.Nord. Senecio fulgens (Hook.f.) G.Nicholson Senecio hookerianus H.Jacobsen Senecio welwitschii O.Hoffm.

Kleinia fulgens is a species of flowering plant in the genus Kleinia and the family Asteraceae native to Southern Africa, which used to be of the genus Senecio.^[2] It is native to the countries Angola, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, as well as to KwaZulu-Natal and the Northern Provinces in South Africa.^[3]

It is a perennial herbaceous plant with a rather soft stem and succulent leaves, extensive, up to 60 cm long, without long hair. Leaves narrow down to the base of the wings, oval with prominent triangular pointed teeth, total length up to 15 cm x 5 cm wide.^{[citation needed]}

There are few flowerheads which resemble a thistle; involucral bracts few, very unequal in width, membranous with border, up to 2 cm long; disk 2.5 cm in diameter; without rays, corolla crimson, scarlet or cherry in colour. The flowers appear from late autumn to winter.^{[4][better source needed]}

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