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Curio hallianus (G.D.Rowley) P.V.Heath

Asteraceae · Cape Provinces

No habitat climate
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Summary

Curio hallianus, syn. Senecio hallianus, is a creeping succulent plant in the daisy family Asteraceae that is native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa. It is also known as chain of blue beans or string of beans.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Curio hallianus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 6 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 6 of the 6 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeCape Provinces · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-32.875, 23.125 · in the densest population, 4 records (67% of those in range)
Kew's description“subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 6 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 5 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 50 km away. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 6 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 6 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Salicyna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (6).

Other Curio 11 in the reference

Curio acaulis Curio acaulis Cluster Fingers Photo: CC BY, ChristinaCurio citriformis Curio citriformis String-of-Tears Photo: CC0, DaderotCurio corymbifer Curio corymbifer Asteraceae Photo: CC0, Di TurnerCurio crassulifolius Curio crassulifolius Blue Fingers Photo: CC BY, Karen EichholzCurio ficoides Curio ficoides Blue Chalkstick Photo: CC BY, YvettevWijkCurio herreanus Curio herreanus Gooseberry Plant Photo: CC0, author not statedCurio muirii Curio muirii Asteraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, James DeaconCurio radicans Curio radicans Creeping-berry Photo: CC BY, Christiaan ViljoenCurio repens Curio repens Blue Chalksticks Photo: CC BY-SA, Deon van EedenCurio rowleyanus Curio rowleyanus String-of-beads Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloCurio talinoides Curio talinoides Bluestraws Photo: CC BY-SA, Nicola van Berkel

Names & registers

Also known as Senecio hallianus. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Asteraceae
Described by
(G.D.Rowley) P.V.Heath
Native to
Cape Provinces
Wild records
6 in range · 5 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-226 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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