Launaea resedifolia
(L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 351. 1891. Scorzonera
resedifolia L., Sp. Pl. 1198. 1753. Launaea chondrilloides (DC.) Hook.f., Fl. Brit.
India 3: 415. 1881.
Herbs, perennial with creeping rhizomes stems 15 - 45 cm high, erect, glabrous,
slender, dichotomously branched. Leaves very variable, 3 - 15 x 0.5 - 1.5 cm, radical leaves
rosulate, runcinate-pinnatifid, acutely and deeply toothed, spinous towards margins, apex
pungent; cauline leaves sessile or subsessile, auricled. Inflorescence a terminal panicle
with stout, dichotomous flowering branches. Heads solitary on the branches, campanulate
or conical, 1.7 - 2.3 x 0.6 - 0.8 cm, erect; peduncle erect, stout, slender, bracteate.
Involucral bracts in 3-series; outer broadly ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 4 - 9 x 2.5 - 3 mm,
glabrous; inner linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 14 - 19 x 3 - 4 mm, glabrous. Ligules
yellow. Stigma bifid, longer or equal to corolla tube. Achenes pale or grayish, 5 - 6.5 mm
long, slender, strongly ribbed, gradually narrowed at apex, truncate at the base, 5 - 6
ribbed, scaberulous. Pappus 11 - 12.5 mm, smooth, unequal.
Fl. & Fr. Jan.- Nov.
Distrib. India: Wastelands and cultivated fields between 300-1500 m. Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan.
Pakistan.
Fl. & Fr. Jan.- Nov.
Distrib. India: Wastelands and cultivated fields between 300-1500 m. Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan.
Pakistan.