Curio (plant)


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: 136, 1997. It contains over 20 species, all of them formerly belonging to the genus Senecio.

Species