Kleinia petraea

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

{{Speciesbox

|image = Senecio jacobsenii.jpg

|genus = Kleinia

|species = petraea

|authority = (R.E.Fr.) C.Jeffrey (1986)

|synonyms = Notonia petraea R.E.Fr.

Notoniopsis petraea (R.E.Fr.) B.Nord.

Senecio jacobsenii G.D.Rowley

Senecio petraeus (R.E.Fr.) Muschl.

|synonyms_ref = {{IPNI

| id = 245725-1

| taxon = Senecio jacobsenii

| authority = G.D.Rowley

| date = 2008-05-26

}}{{IPNI

| id = 943132-1

| date = 2008-05-26

}}{{IPNI

| id = 234581-1

| taxon = Notonia petraea

| authority = R.E.Fr.

| date = 2008-05-26

}} AFPD{{cite web

|url = http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/bd/africa/details.php?langue=an&id=101916

|archive-url = https://archive.today/20130115231136/http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/bd/africa/details.php?langue=an&id=101916

|url-status = dead

|archive-date = 2013-01-15

|title = Kleinia petraea (R.E.Fr.) C.Jeffrey record n° 101916

|accessdate = 2008-05-26

|work = African Plants Database

|publisher = South African National Biodiversity Institute, the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and Tela Botanica

}}

}}

Kleinia petraea is a species of flowering plant in the genus Kleinia and family Asteraceae which was previously considered to be a species of Senecio.{{cite journal

| last = Jeffrey

| first = Charles

| authorlink = Charles Jeffrey (botanist)

| title = The Senecioneae in East Tropical Africa: Notes on Compositae: IV

| journal = Kew Bulletin

| volume = 41

| pages = 873–943

| publisher = Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

| year = 1986

| jstor = 4102988

| issue = 4 | doi = 10.2307/4102988

| bibcode = 1986KewBu..41..873J

}} Native to Kenya and Tanzania, it is colloquially known as creeping jade, trailing jade or weeping jade due to its resemblance to the unrelated Jade plant (Crassula ovata).