Lactuca dolichophylla Kitam.

 
  • Family : ASTERACEAE
    (Composite Or Aster Or Sunflower Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : GENDA FAMILY (गेंदा फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Compositae
  • Synonym(s) : Chondrilla longifolia Wall.; Lactuca handeliana S.Y.Hu; Lactuca longifolia DC.; Lactuca wallichiana Tuisl; Mulgedium sagittatum Royle
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Lactuca dolichophylla Kitam.
  • Common name : Long Leaved Lettuce
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Cultivated areas
  • Key identification features : Differs from 749 in having long narrow, usually entire leaves, and erect blue to violet flower-heads in a broad or narrow branched terminal cluster. Flower-heads 1-1.5 cm long, with 12-20 florets; involucre with fewer much shorter ovate outer bracts and with narrow-oblong inner bracts. Leaves 7-15 cm long by 3-10 mm broad, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, long-pointed, entire or sparingly lobed, stalkless, with enlarged or eared basal lobes; stem branched above, 1-2 m.
  • Flower, Fruit : July-September
  • Distribution :
    • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
    • West Bengal : Darjeeling district,Cooch Behar district,Alipurduar district,Jalpaiguri district
    • Himachal Pradesh : Kinnaur district
    • Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
    • Jammu and Kashmir : Kashmir
  • Native : Afghanistan, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Tibet, West Himalaya
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Afghanistan to China (Yunnan) and Myanmar
  • Literature :
    • Oleg P & Adam S (1984). Flowers of Himalaya. Oxford University Press: 750
    • Uniyal B.P., Sharma J.R., Choudhery U., Singh D.K. (2007). Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: A Checklist. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh: 158
    • GRIERSON A.J.C. & LONG D.G. (1983). FLORA OF BHUTAN INCLUDING A RECORD OF PLANTS FROM SIKKIM Vol. 2: Part 3. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, EDINBURGH: 1472-1473
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Lactuca dolichophylla. Downloaded on 12 October 2024.

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