Lactuca cyprica
| Lactuca cyprica | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Tribe: | Cichorieae |
| Genus: | Lactuca |
| Species: | L. cyprica |
| Binomial name | |
| Lactuca cyprica (Rech.f.) N.Kilian & Greuter 2003 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
|
Cephalorrhynchus cypricus Rech.f. 1951[2] | |
Lactuca cypria, Cyprus lettuce, is a biennial, erect herb with glandular, hairy stems and a globose rhizome. Leaves alternate, simple, the basal large, oblong, petiolate, 10-15 x 5–7 cm, pinnatisect with a suborbicular terminal lobe, the upper smaller, often with a profound purple colour at the lower surface. Flowers in heads, capitula in corymbs, florets pale yellow, all ligulate, flowers April–July, fruit a pappose achene.[3]
Habitat
In moist, shaded positions, by streams and moist hillsides among pines and riverine forest on igneous formations at 800–1950 m altitude.
Distribution
Endemic to Cyprus where it is confined to the Troödos Mountains where it in some areas is fairly common: Tripylos, Stavros Psokas, Kryos Potamos, Troödos Forest, Khionistra.[4]
References
- ↑ The International Plant Names Index
- ↑ "Lactuca cyprica (Rech.f.) N.Kilian & Greuter — The Plant List". theplantlist.org. Retrieved 2014-09-22.
- ↑ The Endemic Plants of Cyprus, Texts: Takis Ch. Tsintides, Photographs: Laizos Kourtellarides, Cyprus Association of Professional Foresters, Bank of Cyprus Group, Nicosia 1998, ISBN 9963-42-067-2
- ↑ "Lactuca cyprica". iucnredlist.org. Retrieved 2014-09-22.