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Sonchus cornutus

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Name

Identification
Sonchus cornutus Hochst. ex. Oliv.&Hiern [family ASTERACEAE ] Launaea cornuta (Hochst. ex Oliv.&Hiern) C.Jeffrey [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Launaea exauriculata
  • Launaea sp.
  • Sonchus cornutus
  • Prenanthes somaliensis
  • Launaea cornuta

Flora

Entry for LAUNAEA cornuta (Hochst. ex Oliv. & Hiern) C. Jeffrey [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 cornuta (Hochst. ex Oliv. & Hiern) C. Jeffrey [family COMPOSITAE], (1966);
Sonchus cornutus Hochst. ex Oliv. & Hiern [family COMPOSITAE], (1877). [type as above]
Sonchus exauriculatus (Oliv. & Hiern) O. Hoffm. [family COMPOSITAE], (1895).
Launaea farinulenta Chiov. [family COMPOSITAE], (1941);
Lactuca farinulenta (Chiov.) Cuf. [family COMPOSITAE], (1943). [type as above]
Information
Perennial, dark glaucous, basally woody herb to 100(–150) cm high, often growing in groups; stems hollow, leafy. Leaves dark glaucous above, greyish green below, variable in shape and size, 2–25 x 0.5–8 cm; lower leaves obovate or oblanceolate to lanceolate, tapering into a narrow base, sinuate-dentate to deeply pinnatifid; upper leaves smaller and narrower, with ± auriculate base. Synflorescences ± divaricately branched, with many capitula; peduncles often with stipitate glands. Capitula with 15–27 florets; involucre 8–11 mm long at anthesis, up to 13 mm in fruit, often ± floury of minute bladder-like hairs (lens!); phyllaries often with scattered stipitate glands and with horn-like glands below the tip. Florets pale yellow, ligules 9–11 mm long, anthers usually blackish yellow, 2.9–3.3 mm long (appendages excluded). Achenes 2.6–4.3 mm long, sharply wrinkled, pale brown, all with 5 main ribs; pappus 5–7 mm long, deciduous, of uniform bristles.
Range
N1; C1, 2; S1–3 widespread from Ethiopia, Djibouti, Eritrea and S Sudan westwards to E Nigeria and southwards to Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Altitude range
0–1100 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gorini 193; Kilian 2240; Gillett 22896.
Notes
Ana-ararsce, bun shugaar, burdab, kab la´raar, kable, wanshigaar (Som.).

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