Lactuca rapunculoides (DC.) C.B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. 268. 1876; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 407. 1881. Mulgedium rapunculoides DC., Prodr. 7: 249. 1838.

Herbs, biennial or perennial; stems 50 - 100 cm high, erect, leafy, paniculately branched above. Leaves cordate or deltoid with incurved margins, hastate, 6 - 15 x 3 - 7 cm, finely membranous; upper middle with very broad, winged petiole; uppermost leaves ovate or lanceolate. Inflorescence a terminal panicle; peduncles drooping. Heads 1.5 - 1.7 x 0.3 - 0.4 cm, 8 - 15 flowered. Outer involucra! bracts ovate or lanceolate, 3 - 4 x 0.5 - 1 mm, unequal; inner linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate. 15 - 18 x 1.5 - 2.5 mm. Ligules white or purple. Anthers pinkish. Stigma pinkish. Achenes elongate, fusiform, 10 - 12 mm, slightly compressed, narrowed at both ends, smooth, with long, slender, brown beak. Pappus dirty white, 7 - 9 mm.

Fl. & Fr. Sept.- Nov.

Distrib. India: W. Himalayas, on open Shady slopes in high elevation, 3000-4500 m. Jammu & Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh.

Nepal and Pakistan.