taxonID	type	description	language	source
EB11CF8F5D535815A8D08B760D9E5175.taxon	description	Description. Perennial rosette herb, (15 -) 20 - 65 cm tall; caudex small, often branched and plant with a two or a few rosettes. Taproot cylindric to narrowly turniplike, to c. 1 cm in diam.; lateral roots perhaps also shoot-bearing. Stem usually one per rosette, erect, branched from basal half or higher up, leafless or with few leaves in proximal portion, sparsely hairy. Rosette leaves conspicuously sagittiform and usually long-petiolate; petiole 2 - 22 cm, narrowly winged, margin entire or distantly sinuate-dentate; lamina triangular in outline, 2 - 8 x 1.5 - 10 cm, usually with a basal pair of acute to acuminate triangular lateral lobes and an acute triangular terminal lobe; the lateral lobes narrow or broad, sometimes much reduced to missing, directed downwards, outwards or upwards; sometimes lamina with an additional rudimentary pair of lobes above the basal one and then pentagonal; margin shallowly sinuate-dentate and often also denticulate. Stem leaves few, the lower ones similar to basal leaves but smaller and less lobed, upper leaves lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, entire, narrowed into short petiolate portion. Synflorescence paniculiform-corymbiform, with some to many capitula. Capitula with c. 12 - 25 florets; peduncle wiry, mostly 1 - 2 cm long. Involucre narrowly cylindric, 7 - 8 mm at anthesis to 8 - 10 mm at fruiting; outer phyllaries narrowly ovate to lanceolate, apex acute, outermost c. 2 mm, innermost up to 2 / 3 of the length of the inner (rarely longer); inner phyllaries c. 8 (- 10), linear-lanceolate, acute. Florets with [orange-, according to collector] yellow corolla, c. 12 - 14 mm; ligulae c. 6 - 8 mm; anther tube yellow, fertile portion c. 2.2 mm, apical appendages 0.2 mm, basal appendages 0.4 - 0.5 mm; style yellow. Achenes 4 - 4.5 mm long, slightly compressed, subfusiform with largest diameter in middle third, apically attenuate into a beak, basally less strongly attenuate into an annular carpophore; corpus with 5 main ribs, each with + / - 2 secondary ribs; scabrid of antrorse triangular apical projections of achene epidermis cells, brown to purplish brown; beak 0.6 - 1.2 (- 2) mm, pale. Pappus 4 - 6 mm, persistent, of scabrid, white bristles.	en	Zhang, Jian-Wen, Kilian, Norbert, Huang, Jiang-Hua, Sun, Hang (2023): Ixeridium sagittarioides (Asteraceae - Cichorieae) revisited: range extension and molecular evidence for its systematic position in the Lactuca alliance. PhytoKeys 230: 115-130, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.230.107733, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.230.107733
EB11CF8F5D535815A8D08B760D9E5175.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Lactuca sagittarioides is distributed along the Himalayan chain from N Pakistan across NW India, Nepal, Bhutan, N Myanmar and N Thailand to SW China (for references see Kilian et al. 2009 b). It is found on open, often grassy slopes, at altitudes mostly between 1500 and 2000 m, but down to 700 m in Guizhou and up to somewhat above 2000 m in Yunnan. The occurrence of the species seems altogether very scattered and it does not seem to be frequent anywhere.	en	Zhang, Jian-Wen, Kilian, Norbert, Huang, Jiang-Hua, Sun, Hang (2023): Ixeridium sagittarioides (Asteraceae - Cichorieae) revisited: range extension and molecular evidence for its systematic position in the Lactuca alliance. PhytoKeys 230: 115-130, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.230.107733, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.230.107733
