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9596.000 Lactuca - Lettuces
Description of the genus
Annual, biennial or perennial herbs. Leaves radical or cauline and alternate. Involucre usually cylindric. Phyllaries 3-5-seriate. Receptacle without scales. Florets yellow, whitish, purplish or blue. Achenes beaked or at least somewhat attenuate above, with ascending hairs or rough projections on the ribs or at least on the margins; ribs unequal. Pappus several-seriate of uniform barbellate setae, rarely with an outer ring of minute setae. Worldwide: c. 75 species, cosmopolitan but many in N temperate zones |
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Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | Links to maps | FZ divisions | Content |
| imbricata Hiern var. imbricata | Altitude Rainfall Geology | N,C,S | Description |
| inermis Forssk. | Altitude Rainfall Geology | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| lasiorhiza (O. Hoffm.) C. Jeffrey | Altitude Rainfall Geology | E | Description |
| serriola L. | Altitude Rainfall Geology | W,C,S | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Lactuca:
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Lactuca pageFlora of Mozambique: Lactuca
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Lactuca
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Lactuca
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Lactuca
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Lactuca
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Lactuca
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