Annual herb ; up to 30 cm tall , with white latex , glabrous to pubescent . Stems sparsely branched already from base , several , weak , slender . Leaves almost linear up to 10 × 0 . 2 cm . Inflorescences with less than 10 yellow flowers , on slender peduncles , single or by a few at the end of the branches . Flowers pale yellow , little exceeding the involucre . Fruit achenes , stellately spreading , 8–15 mm long , narrowly cylindric and falcately curved , with a longitudinal groove on the inner side and numerous hooked spines on the outer side , distally attenuate and with a few outwards curved spines on the tip . Seeds pappus , absent . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
No Data
Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Koelpinia chrysoglochis Rech.f.
Koelpinia latifolia C.Winkl.
Koelpinia linearis var. filiformis Eichenf. ex Anth.
Koelpinia linearis var. latifolia (C.Winkl.) Abedin & Ghafoor
Lapsana koelpinia L.f.
Rhagadiolus echinatus Dum.Cours.
Rhagadiolus koelpinia (L.f.) F.W.Schmidt
No data
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Koelpinia
Linear Koelpinia, Small Nipplewort
Not used traditionally.
*Ghazanfar, S. (2015). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.3: Loganiaceae – Asteraceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 9789082352511 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *https://www.etymonline.com *Patzelt, A., Harrison, T., Knees, S.G. & Hartley, L.A. (2014). Studies in the flora of Arabia: XXXI. New records from the Sultanate of Oman Edinburgh Journal of Botany 71: 161-180. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
