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.