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Lactuca scarioloides BOISS. |
 Lactuca scarioloides BOISS |
Lactuca L. |
| L. scarioloides Boiss., Diagn. ser. 1(11):49 (1847). Erect biennial 60-120 cm, stems white, smooth, glabrous. Leaves oblanceolate, unlobed or runcinate-pinnatisect with 4-6 lateral lobes, glaucous, glabrous, smooth or shortly spinose-setose on midrib beneath, sinuate-denticulate; median cauline 8-16x3.5-4.5 cm, auriculate, auricles rounded. Inflorescence rather divaricately branched, corymbiform, many-capitulate, ± glabrous, capitula except terminal shortly pedunculate or almost sessile, solitary or in small clusters. Involucre 9.5-14 mm, rather longer in fruit than in flower; phyllaries 12-14, 3-seriate, glabrous. Flowers yellow, 1.8-2 cm, hairy about mouth. Achenes 9.5 mm, pale brown, with ± concolorous slender 4-4.7 mm beak. Pappus white, 5.5-7 mm. Fl. 8. Broad-leaved scrub woodland, 1850-3100 m. Syntypes: in alpe Kuh Delu Persiae australis, Kotschy 506 (K!), 506a et in monte Totschal Persiae borealis, Kotschy 556. S.E. Anatolia. B8 Bitlis: Meleto Da., 2900-3100 m, Hand.-Mazz. 2760. Muş: Bulanik to Muş, 2100 m, Renz 11679! B9 Bitlis: Nemrut Da., 2400 m, McNeill 542! Van: Çatak to Van, 1850 m, Nábĕlek 3837. C9 Van: Başkale to Koçanis, 2100 m, Nábelek 3840. C10 Hakkari: Cilo Da., 2750 m, D. 24240! N. Iraq, Iran. Ir.-Tur. element. |