Perennial herb or subshrub ; up to ± 1 m high , with white latex . Stems robust , erect , almost leafless , long , thin , sparingly branched . Leaves in a basal rosette or crowded basally , up to 11 × 6 cm , obovate to broadly spathulate with rounded apex , sinuate-dentate and denticulate . Inflorescences solitary at the end of the branches . Flowers yellow . Fruit achenes , 2 . 5–3 . 5 mm long , bulky , inner glabrous and pale , marginal densely covered with stiff , coarse , narrowly triangular brown papillae . Seeds pappus , 8–10 mm long , of cottony hairs and a few caducous bristles . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
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Castanosperma Launaea
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*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.nparks.gov.sg *Pickering, H. Patzelt, A. (2008). Field Guide to the Wild Plants of Oman. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. ISBN 9781842461778. *Patzelt, A. (2015). Oman Plant Red Data Book. Published by Diwan of Royal Court, Sultanate of Oman. Oman Botanic Garden Publication No. 1. ISBN 978-99969-50-10-0. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
