10. Senecio ser. Malacophylli C. Jeffrey & Y. L. Chen, Kew Bull. 39: 389. 1984.
软叶千里光系 ruan ye qian li guang xi
Herbs, perennial, erect, sometimes robust, with leafy stems. Leaves usually lyrate-pinnately divided or basally sometimes undivided, ovate to triangular-lanceolate and ± cordate at base. Capitula usually radiate, erect, usually small and numerous or very numerous. Phyllaries 5-13(-18), herbaceous, apically usually obtuse. Ray florets 2-8, rarely absent. Disk florets 2-18, rarely many. Antheropodia rather small, comparatively short and narrow, basally slightly dilated, rarely distinctly so. Achenes glabrous or rarely pubescent.
Eight species: Bhutan, China, India (Sikkim), Myanmar, Nepal; eight species (seven endemic) in China.
