Lactuca graciliflora DC.

 
  • 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) : Cicerbita taliensis Beauverd; Lactuca taliiensis Franch.; Prenanthes graciliflora Wall.; Prenanthes graciliflora (DC.) Benth. & Hook.f.; Stenoseris graciliflora (Wall. ex DC.) C.Shih; Stenoseris taliensis (Franch.) C.Shih
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Melanoseris graciliflora (DC.) N.Kilian
  • Habit : Perennial herb
  • Habitat : On moist gravel, thickets, forest margins, grasslands; 1500 - 3650 m. altitude
  • Comments / notes : Extremely variable in leaf shape
  • Flower, Fruit : June-September
  • Distribution :
    • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
    • Sikkim : North Sikkim (Mangan) district,East Sikkim (Gangtok) district
    • West Bengal : Darjeeling district
  • Native : Bhutan, China, East Himalaya, Jawa, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet, Vietnam
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Himalaya to China (Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou) and West Malesia
  • Literature :
    • 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: 1477
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Lactuca graciliflora. Downloaded on 12 October 2024.

India Distribution

World Distribution

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