Launaea asplenifolia

Launaea asplenifolia Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 415. iii. 415.  (Syn: Ammoseris asplenifolia D.Dietr.; Chondrilla asplenifolia Poir.);

 

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Asteraceae Fortnight part 3-Ligulate heads (plus Misc.): Launaea asplenifolia from Delhi-GS-23 :

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Launaea asplenifolia photographed from Delhi 

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Hooghly : Launaea asplenifolia Hook.f.? or Launaea procumbens Roxb.? : Attachments (10). 

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It is very interesting to compare the two illustrations below –

…, following is the link of the Bengal Plant page

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Asteraceae Fortnight Part 3-Ligulate heads (plus Misc.): Launaea asplenifolia Hook.f.? : sk05:  

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This is the same set as in – efi thread (Hooghly : Launaea asplenifolia Hook.f.? or Launaea procumbens Roxb.?) + one more close up of leaf. 

The Key to genera (efi thread) tells me that it is a Launaea species.

Bengal Plants describes 3 plants :-

1. Heads terminal, or racemose…. margins of leaves with few or no teeth; teeth if present not cartilaginous at tips —— L. aspleniifolia
2. Heads terminal, or racemose….margins of leaves closely, sharply toothed, the teeth white, firm and cartilaginous at the tips —— L. nudicaulis (Launaea nudicaulis auct. (India) non. L. nudicaulis (L.) Hook.f. sensu stricto (Syn. of Launaea procumbens) as per references)
3. Heads solitary or fascicled at the nodes of the flagelliform, rooting flowering stem —– L. pinnatifida (syn. of Launaea sarmentosa (Willd.) Alston)

(It is interesting to note that what is L. aspleniifolia Hook f. in “Bengal Plants” is L. aspleniifolia DC. in F. B. I. iii. 415)

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I think this is L. aspleniifolia Hook f., as per key in “Bengal Plants”.

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