Hypochoeris
L.
Herbs, annual or perennial, scapigerous often glabrous or hispid with simple hairs;
scapes simple or sparingly branched, usually leafless, bracteate above. Leaves radical,
rosulate, ovate to oblong-spathulate, entire to dentate or sinuate-pinnatifid or runcinate-pinnatifid. Heads homogamous, solitary, usually campanulate, solitary, long peduncled.
Involucral bracts 2 - 5 seriate, imbricate. Receptacle flat, paleaceous. Ligules usually
yellow, 5-toothed. Style branches thin, obtuse. Achenes monomorphic or dimorphic,
angular, cylindrical, oblong-linear, compressed or terete, 10 - 15 ribbed, glabrous,
muricate, truncate or beaked at apex. Pappus 1 - 2 seriate, hairs plumose.
Throughout Europe, Asia and N. Africa, from tropical to temperate regions; ca 100 species, 2 in India, both introduced.
Literature. CABRERA, A.L. (1963). Eatudios sobre et genera Hypochoeris in Bull. Soc. Bot. 10: 166-195. KAMMATHY R.V. (1963). 1964. On the occurrence of two species of Hypochoeris L. in Nilgiris, South India in Bull. Bot. Surv. India 5: 247-249. LACK, H.W. (1979). The subtribe Hypochoeridinae (Asteraceae-Lactuceae) in the tropics and the southern hemisphere. Tropical Botany, (eds. K. Larsen & L.B. Holm-Nielson). Academic Press 265-275.
Throughout Europe, Asia and N. Africa, from tropical to temperate regions; ca 100 species, 2 in India, both introduced.
Literature. CABRERA, A.L. (1963). Eatudios sobre et genera Hypochoeris in Bull. Soc. Bot. 10: 166-195. KAMMATHY R.V. (1963). 1964. On the occurrence of two species of Hypochoeris L. in Nilgiris, South India in Bull. Bot. Surv. India 5: 247-249. LACK, H.W. (1979). The subtribe Hypochoeridinae (Asteraceae-Lactuceae) in the tropics and the southern hemisphere. Tropical Botany, (eds. K. Larsen & L.B. Holm-Nielson). Academic Press 265-275.
KEY TO THE SPECIES
| 1a. Perennial herbs; stems robust; achenes monomorphic, beaked | 2. Hypochoeris radicata |
| b. Annual herbs; stems slenders achenes dimorphic, inner distinctly beaked | 1. Hypochoeris glabra |
