Entry for LACTUCA Dregeana DC. [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 3, page 44, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
LACTUCA DregeanaDC. [family COMPOSITAE], l. c. 137
LACTUCA virosaThunb. [family COMPOSITAE], ! Fl. Cap. p. 614.
Information
stem erect, terete, simple at base, and more or less rough with bristles, panicled and glabrous above; leaves with a prickly midrib, sagittate-half-clasping, the lower runcinate or runcinate or sinuous-toothed and rigidly ciliate, the upper quite entire, linear-lanceolate, much acuminate; achenes multistriate, about equalling their beak. Drege, 3784. Stem 2–3 ft. high, pale; the taller specimens very much branched above. Cauline leaves 4–9 in. long, 4–8 l. wide. Very near L. saligna and L. virosa, if sufficiently distinct from the latter. Cultivated specimens from Hort. Kew. and Hort. Hamburg have broadly oblong or obovate, obtuse, toothed cauline leaves! altogether unlike those of the wild plant, as above described.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Cannaland, Thunberg! Zuureberg, Drege! Caledon R., Burke & Zeyher! Zey! 1037. (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.)
