Lactuca cyprica
Lactuca cypria, the 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.[4]
| Lactuca cyprica | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Lactuca |
| Species: | L. cyprica |
| Binomial name | |
| Lactuca cyprica | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Cephalorrhynchus cypricus Rech.f. 1951[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.[1]
References
- Kyratzis, A. (2011). "Lactuca cyprica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T172258A6859166. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T172258A6859166.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- 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