9595.000 Sonchus L.

Description of the genus

Annual, biennial or perennial herbs. Stems erect, hollow. Leaves alternate, cauline, undivided or pinnately lobed; base ± auriculate to sagittate; margin often spiny-ciliate. Phyllaries several-seriate, imbricate; outer eventually swollen at base. Receptacle naked, pitted. Florets yellow. Achenes flattened, truncate above, ± strongly ribbed; beak 0. Pappus several-seriate, dimorphic, consisting of setae and fine down-like hairs intermixed.

Caprivi: 4 cultivated taxa.

The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:

Philotherma rosa (Rose eggar)

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Species	Content
asper (L.) Hill[Agg]
luxurians (R.E. Fr.) C. Jeffrey
oleraceus L.	Description, Image
schweinfurthii Oliv. & Hiern	Description, Image

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