M. Thulin (2006) Solanecio. Flora of Somalia 3: 531.
Plants perennial herbs, shrubs, or small trees, sometimes climbing. Leaves entire to pinnatifid. Inflorescences few to many capitula in paniculate-corymbose clusters. Capitula discoid; phyllaries in one series but with an outer series of linear bracts forming a calyculus; receptacles without bracts. Flowers usually yellow, tubular campanulate, 5-lobed; style branches truncate. Achenes oblong, ribbered; pappuses of many, slender, barbellate, bristles.
Solanecio is a genus of about 17 species. They are native to Africa, Madagascar, and Yemen. One species, Solanecio angulatus, grows in Somaliland. None is known from Somalia.
Note: GBIF records include introduced and cultivated plants. Consequently, the distribution shown often differs from statements about a taxon's native distribution.