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Sonchus rarifolius

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Identification
Launaea nana (Bak.) Chiov. [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Launaea rarifolia (Oliv. & Hiern) Boulos [family COMPOSITAE ] Sonchus rarifolius Oliver & Hiern [family COMPOSITAE ] Lactuca nana Baker [family COMPOSITAE ] Lactuca stenocephala Baker [family COMPOSITAE ]
Related name
  • Sonchus rarifolius
  • Lactuca nana
  • Launaea nana
  • Lactuca welwitschii
  • Lactuca stenocephala
  • Launaea rarifolia

Flora

Entry for SONCHUS rarifolius O. & H. [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
SONCHUS rarifolius O. & H. [family COMPOSITAE]
Information
An erect twiggy perennial from thick shrubby sometimes woolly crown, 1–2 1/2 ft. high. Stems slender, glabrous, dichotomous; branches at an acute angle. Leaves few, lanceolate, glabrous or puberulous, entire or aculeate-denticulate, 1/8– 3/8 in. long, sessile. Capitula narrowly cylindrical, 1/2– 2/3 in. long, about 8-flowered, on slender pedicels in a much branched cyme. Inner involucral bracts linear, obtuse, 6–8. Achenes linear, scarcely compressed, smooth, 1/4 in. long, about 10-striate, narrow, pale brown. Pappus 1/4– 1/2 in. long.
Distribution
Mozamb. Dist. Zomba and East end of Lake Shirwa, Meller!Upper Guinea Niger Expedition, at Nupe, Barter!

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