Launaea procumbens
Launaea procumbens (Roxb.) Ramayya & Rajagopal in Kew Bull. 23: 465 (1969).
Synonyms:
- Paramicrorhynchus procumbens (Roxb.) Kirp. Fl. URSS xxix. 237 (1964). 237 (1964).
- Microrhynchus arabicus Jaub. & Spach Illustr. iii. 107. t. 277. (1848).
- Microrhynchus patens DC. Prodr. (DC.) 7(1): 181 181 (1838).
- Sonchus leucodon Fisch. & Mey. ex Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 832. (1846).
- Zollikoferia fallax (Jaub. & Spach) Boiss. 824 (1875).
- Zollikoferia leucodon Kar. "Kar. in Bjull. Moskovsk. Obshch. Isp. Prir., Otd. Biol. 12. 1839" 161 (1839).
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Perennial herb, stems procumbent, decumbent or ascending, 30 cm tall. Leaves mostly basal rosulate, oblong-oblanceolate, 5-12x0.5-2.5 cm, pinnatifid, with an obscurely toothed margin; stem leaves linear, serrate, net pinnatifid. Flower heads yellow, subsessile or shortly pedunculate, solitary or clustered. Involucre oblong-cylindrical, 1 cm long in fruit. Achenes brown, oblong, 5 mm long, unwinged, weakly compressed and faintly tetragonal, minutely ribbed, apex acute, pappus caducous, of fine white hairs.
From Egypt to Saudi Arabia eastwards to India, and Central Asia. The Farasan Islands (Farasan Al-Kabir- Sajid- Dumsuk).