An erect glabrous annual herb , with white latex . Stems erect , hollow , leafy in lower part , divaricately branched above . Leaves basal leaves obovate to spathulate , obtuse to acute , sinuate-dentate to runcinate ; stem leaves smaller , lanceolate , sagittately auriculate . Inflorescences on wiry , short peduncles to sessile , at fruiting often clustered at the nodes . Flowers pale yellow ; anther tube without appendages 1 . 1–1 . 3 mm long . Fruit achenes , 3–4 . 5 mm long , the inner greyish , weakly wrinkled , attenuate to shortly rostrate , the marginal usually black , sharply wrinked , with a beak 1/8–1/4 of the achene length . Seeds pappus , 7–8 mm long , of downy hairs and bristles . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
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Brachyramphus intybaceus (Jacq.) DC.
Cicerbita intybacea (Jacq.) Wallr.
Lactuca intybacea Jacq.
Phaenixopus intybaceus (Jacq.) Less.
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Bitter Lettuce
Wild Lettuce
Known as a good treatment to stop the bleeding from fresh wounds and bleeding nose. The leaves are edible as alternative for radish. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).
*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 *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. *Pickering, H. Patzelt, A. (2008). Field Guide to the Wild Plants of Oman. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. ISBN 9781842461778. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
