• Family : Asteraceae
  (Composite Or Aster Or Sunflower Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GENDA FAMILY (गेंदा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Asteraceae
• Synonym(s) : Chondrilla longifolia Wall.; Lactuca handeliana S.Y.Hu; Lactuca longifolia DC.; Lactuca wallichiana Tuisl; Mulgedium sagittatum Royle
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Lactuca dolichophylla Kitam.
• Common name : Long Leaved Lettuce
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Cultivated areas
• Key identification features : Differs from 749 in having long narrow, usually entire leaves, and erect blue to violet flower-heads in a broad or narrow branched terminal cluster. Flower-heads 1-1.5 cm long, with 12-20 florets; involucre with fewer much shorter ovate outer bracts and with narrow-oblong inner bracts. Leaves 7-15 cm long by 3-10 mm broad, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, long-pointed, entire or sparingly lobed, stalkless, with enlarged or eared basal lobes; stem branched above, 1-2 m.
• Flower, Fruit : July-September
• Distribution :
  • Kashmir : Kashmir
• Native : Afghanistan, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Tibet, West Himalaya
• Exotic/Native : Native
• Literature : Oleg P & Adam S (1984). Flowers of Himalaya. Oxford University Press: 750
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Navendu Page, Deepak Kumar (2020). Pan India Bouquets. http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/pan/plants.php?name=Lactuca dolichophylla. Downloaded on 2 July 2022.

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