Names: (= like senecio, an old man).
Botany: 150 genera; 3, 000 species; widest possible range of forms; annuals, minute creeping alpines, perennial herbs, shrubs, climbers, succulents, trees and semi-aquatic plants.
Content: pyrrolizidine alkaloids, furanoeremophilanes.
TaxonomySenecioneae is a Tribe of the Subfamily
Asteroideae of
Asteraceae.
In the
Plant theory Asteroideae is split in four clades Heliantheae,
Astereae, Senecioneae and Anthemideae. Senecioneae is placed in
Subphase 6.