LAPSANA L. - NIPPLEWORT
Scientific Description:
Annual to perennial herbs, glabrous or with simple eglandular and/or glandular hairs. Stems usually solitary, rarely several, branched. Leaves entire to lobed. Capitula numerous, homogamous, ligulate, pedunculate. Phyllaries 2-seriate, outer few, small and scale-like. Receptacle flat, without paleae. Flowers yellow. Achenes oblong, terete or slightly compressed, with c. 20 ribs, deciduous. Pappus absent.
Reference:
Sell PD (1975). Lapsana L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 5: 785.
Public Description:
Lapsana is a genus of annual or perennial herbs, known as “nipplewort”, is native to Europe and northern Asia. There are 6 species in the world and 2 species (6 taxa) in Türkiye. They have yellow flowers.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapsana/, Accessed date: 21.01.2016.
Anonymous 2 (2016). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Compositae/Lapsana/, Accessed date: 21.01.2016.
Ekim T (2012). Lapsana L. In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 182.
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