Kleinia is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family. Kleinia contains around 50 species and is distributed from Morocco and the Canary Islands, throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, South Asia and Indochina. It is closely related to the genus Senecio but is distinguished primarily by having succulent stems or leaves.
Kleinia are upright, perennial, succulent, 1âÂÂ2.5 m tall shrubs or subshrubs with fleshy, 3âÂÂ6 cm wide stems and tuberous roots.
The flowers are white, yellow, or red.
It was described by Philip Miller in 1754.
Kleinia commemorates Dr. Jacob Theodor Klein, a German botanist.
The genus Kleinia has 56 species:
Kleinia species are used as herbal medicine.