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Launaea intybacea

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Name

Identification
Launaea intybacea (Jacq.) Beauverd [family ASTERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Launaea intybacea
Common name
  • Wild-lettuce, Flora of North America Vol. 19

Flora

Entry for LAUNAEA intybacea (Jacq.) Beauverd [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by H. Beentje (Acanthospermum, Ageratum, Aspilia, Atractylis, Blainvillea, Blumea, Carthamus, Cirsium, Conyza, Crepis, Dichrocephala, Distephanus, Echinops, Eclipta, Erlangera, Felicia, Flaveria, Geigera, Gerbera, Grangea, Gutenbergia, Helichrysum, Iphiona, Iphionopsis, Jurinea, Laggera, Litogyne, Osteospermum, Pegolettia, Pentanema, Pseudoblepharispermum, Pseudognaphalium, Psiadia, Pulicaria, Reichardia, Sclerocarpus, Sonchus, Sphaeranthus, Tagetes, Tarchonanthus, Tridax, Vernonia, Volutaria, Xanthium), T. Eriksson (Athroisma, Blepharispermum), N. Kilian (Launaea), S. King-Jones & M. Thulin (Pluchea), Mesfin Tadesse (Bidens), S. Ortiz & J. Rodríguez-Oubiña (Dicoma), and M. Thulin (Cineraria, Doellia, Emilia, Erythroseris, Euryops, Galinsoga, Gynura, Helianthus, Kleinia, Lactuca, Pentzia, Senecio, Solanecio, Verbesina, Zinnia). [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
LAUNAEA intybacea (Jacq.) Beauverd [family COMPOSITAE], (1910).
Lactuca remotiflora DC. [family COMPOSITAE], (1834).
Lactuca goraeensis (Lam.) Sch. Bip. [family COMPOSITAE], (1842).
Information
Polymorphic annual herb, 15–150 cm high; stems erect, either leafy in the lower half or leafless and leaves then in basal rosette. Basal leaves up to 1.5–37 x 0.5–14 cm, obovate to spathulate, obtuse to acute, sinuate-dentate to runcinate, margin denticulate with white stiff teeth; stem leaves smaller, lanceolate, pinnatifid, sagittately auriculate. Synflorescences with many capitula, of few to many spreading-erect flowering axes. Capitula often clustered at the nodes, with 12–35 florets; involucre slender, 9–13 mm long, inner phyllaries 8. Florets pale yellow, ligule 5.5–6 mm long, linear; anthers (appendages excluded) 1.1–1.3 mm long. Achenes 3.2–4.5 mm long, the inner ones with 4 main ribs, greyish, weakly wrinkled, cuspidate to shortly rostrate, the marginal ones with a beak 1/8–1/4 of the achene length and 5 main ribs, sharply wrinkled, black (occasionally all pale); pappus 7–8 mm long, persistent, of outer downy hairs and inner bristles.
Range
S2, 3 probably originating from the SW Arabian Peninsula and Eritrea, now scattered along the southern edge of the Sahara to W Africa, introduced to E, SE, SW Africa and Madagascar, E Arabia, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and also to the Caribbean.
Altitude range
0–100 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gorini 39; Kilian 2048 & Lobin 6901; Kilian 2129 & Lobin 6981.
Notes
Burdab, burdet kuwene, kablaror, kable, warama caanoole, wanshaqaar (Som.).

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