Lapsana L.

Herbs, annual or biennial erect; stems glabrous or hispid below, paniculately branched. Leaves usually alternate, ovate, linear, entire or pinnatifid or lyrate-pinnatifid, petioled. Heads small, loosely corymbose or panicled, usually many flowered; peduncle slender, short, erect. Outer involucral bracts ovate or ovate-cordate or ovate-oblong; inner linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, subequal, acute. Corolla yellow; ligules 5-toothed. Stamens 5, appendaged; anthers introse, slender, base sagittate. Achenes oblanceolate, subcompressed, curved, subterete, many ribbed; rounded at the top, narrowed at base.

From tropical, sub-tropical to temperate regions of Europe and Asia; ca 10 species, 1 in India.

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