Conspicuously greyish-glaucous annual herb ; up to 50 cm high , with white latex . Stems erect , divaricately branched distally . Leaves cauline , spathulate , irregularly deeply pinnately divided , with narrow , acute segments , acute apex and cochleate , pinnatifid , auriculate base , margin sinuate-dentate and undulate . Inflorescences on peduncles mostly 3–6 cm long . Flowers bright yellow . Fruit achenes , 3–7 mm long , the inner with papillose wrinkle lines and with a slightly ventricose tubular base , the marginal densely papillose . Seeds pappus , 4-7(-9) mm long , caducous , of ± 20-30 bristles . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
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Launaea cassiniana (Jaub. & Spach) Burkill
Rhabdotheca cassiniana (Jaub. & Spach) Sch.Bip. ex Schweinf.
Sonchus cassinianus Jaub. & Spach
Zollikoferia cassiniana (Jaub. & Spach) Boiss.
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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://pza.sanbi.org *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
