An erect perennial herb ; to more than 1 m high , with white latex , and a long thick semi-woody taproot . Stems solitary or several , somewhat glaucous . Leaves mainly in the lower portion of the stem , up to 20 cm long , narrowly lanceolate , entire or sinuate-dentate and up to 2 cm wide , sometimes pinnately lobed with lobes to 3 cm long . Inflorescences with up to ± 15 flowers ; in a paniculiform synflorescence . Flowers bluish or whitish . Fruit achenes , (including beak) 4 . 5–8 mm long , body reddish brown , strongly compressed , 1-ribbed on either side and wrinkled , ± 3–5 mm long , the white to greenish-white , filiform beak 1 . 5–3 . 5 mm long . Seeds pappus , of many barbellate white bristles , 5–7 mm long . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Rare
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Lactuca capensis Thunb.
Lactuca yemensis Deflers
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Cape Lettuce
Wild Lettuce
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 *http://southwestdesertflor *https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw *Patzelt, A. & al. (2020). Studies in the flora of Arabia: XXXIV. Sixty new records from the Sultanate of Oman Edinburgh Journal of Botany 77: 413-437. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
