Spinescent subshrub ; up to ± 60 cm high , with white latex , glabrous or subglabrous . Stems whitish , rigid , intricately and divaricately branched , branched from base . Leaves glaucous green ; basal leaves rosulate , up to 12 × 20 mm , sinuate-dentate to pinnately lobed with triangular , acute , retrorse lobes ; stem leaves increasingly smaller and less incised towards stem apex , with linear , adnately long-decurrent auricles . Inflorescences solitary , on peduncles remaining as spines after the shedding of the capitula , or laterally sessile ; with 4 flowers . Flowers pale yellow . Fruit achenes , pale brown , 7–9 mm long , narrowly ellipsoidal , including a 2–3 mm long , concolorous beak . Seeds pappus , of many barbellate , white , easily caducous bristles 7–8 mm long . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Phaenixopus orientalis Boiss.
Scariola orientalis (Boiss.) Soják
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Oriental 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 *Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
