Greyish to glaucish perennial herb ; up to ± 25 cm high , with white latex , and a fleshy taproot . Stems erect , ± divaricately branched , slightly succulent , glabrous . Leaves to 6(–10) × 3(–5) cm , obovate to spathulate , basally crowded , sinuate-dentate to pinnatisect or bipinnately divided with narrow segments . Inflorescences with few to several pedunculate capitula . Flowers bright yellow . Fruit achenes , 2 . 5–5 mm long , pale brown , inner glabrous , marginal densely papillose . Seeds pappus , 7–9 mm long , of almost uniform bristles . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
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Rare
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Crepis sp. Miller & Morris
Launaea cufodontii Lanza
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In Omani studies: Miller & Morris (1988) wrote that: "After rain, the root slowly swells until it reaches the size of a finger and more, depending on the quality of the soil in which it is growing. Great care has to be taken in digging it up as the stem and leaves are extremely fragile, and the swollen root can grow at a great depth. Once dug up and the outer skin rubbed off, this swollen root provided a very sweet and juicy snak. These plants were formerly very common, and were then a not unimportant item of diet at a time of year when livestock had not yet come into full milk (in the post-monsoon season). However, nowadyas, like so many of these edible roots and tubers, speciemens are proving increasingly hard to find, for reasons which are complex; some not yet fully understood, like climatic change, but also
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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://plants.jstor.org *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
