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Lactuca saligna L.

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Lactuca saligna L.
Lactuca saligna L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Lactuca saligna L.
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Lactuca saligna

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saligna

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Lactuca saligna L.

Usually glabrous annual or biennial. Stems ascending, not or sparingly branched, glabrous, grooved, 40-60 cm tall. Lvs green, glabrous or sometimes with spines along midrib beneath. Rosette and lower stem lvs green, tapering to base, 3-10 × 1-2 cm, pinnatifid; lobes slender, linear, acute, recurved, entire. Upper lvs sessile, linear, hastate and amplexicaul at base. Infl. spicate. Capitula numerous. Involucre narrowly cylindric, 8-15 mm long; bracts imbricate, erecto-patent at fruiting; outermost bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 1/5-1/6 length of innermost bracts; innermost bracts linear, subacute to acute. Florets c. 11/2× length of involucre; corollas suberect, pale yellow. Achenes pale brown or grey, 7-8-ribbed on each face, obovate, flattened, scabrid distally on ribs; body 3-4 mm long; beak pale, 11/2-2× length of body. Pappus fine, white.

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Lactuca saligna L.
Lactuca saligna L.
Lactuca saligna L.

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Lactuca saligna L.
New Zealand
Lactuca saligna L.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Lactuca saligna L.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Lactuca saligna L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District

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1 January 2000
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