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Lactuca hochstetteri

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Identification
Lactuca capensis Thunb. [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Lactuca inermis Forssk. [family COMPOSITAE ] Lactuca hochstetteri Sch.Bip. ex Hochst. [family COMPOSITAE ]
Related name
  • Lactuca capensis
  • Pyrrhopappus not on sheet
  • Lactuca inermis
  • Pyrrhopappus hochstetteri
  • Gyrrhopappus hochstetteri
  • Lactuca hochstetteri
  • Lactuca humilis

Flora

Entry for LACTUCA Hochstetteri Schultz Bip. [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 253, (1877) Author: (By Prof. Oliver and W. P. Hiern.)
Names
LACTUCA Hochstetteri Schultz Bip. [family COMPOSITAE], in Herb. Schimp. Abyss. i. n. 128.
Pyrrhopappus Hochstetteri A. Rich. [family COMPOSITAE], Fl. Abyss. i. p. 463.
Information
Branched perennial, 2–24 in. high or more. Root-stock thick. Branches glabrous, slender, terete. Lower leaves mostly runcinate-dentate, glabrous or puberulous, 1 1/2–3 in. long or more; upper leaves distant, mostly pinnatipartite, with distant lanceolate-linear acute segments. Capitula 2/5– 3/5 in. long, 5-flowered or in the variety 3–5-flowered, on pedicels ranging up to 1–3 in., in a repeatedly branched cyme. Inner involucral bracts usually 5. Achenes compressed, striate, black with long pale neck at top. Pappus of a golden colour.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Schimper! Petit!

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