12. Senecio ser. Erucifolii (Rouy) Schischkin in Schischkin & Bobrov, Fl. URSS. 26: 710. 1961.
菊叶千里光系 ju ye qian li guang xi
Senecio subsect. Erucifolii Rouy, Fl. France 8: 333. 1903; Jacobaea Miller.
Herbs, perennial, erect, with ± arachnoid-pubescent usually leafy stems, rarely subscapigerous. Basal leaves lyrate-pinnately divided, stem leaves pinnately divided. Capitula radiate, erect, medium-sized, several to numerous. Phyllaries 10-22, herbaceous, apically acute-acuminate. Ray florets 10-21. Disk florets many. Antheropodia distinctly to markedly dilated toward base. Achenes all glabrous or all pubescent or ray achenes glabrous and pappus sometimes absent in ray florets, rarely absent in all florets.
About 40 species: mainly temperate and montane Asia and Europe; nine species (one endemic) in China.
One of us (Nordenstam) treats the species of this series within the genus Jacobaea.
