Lactuca homblei De Wild.

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Habit
Miombo and chipya woodland
Kipemba area, Kalumbila Distr.
Oct 2022
Photo: Nick Wightman

Basal leaf rosette
Miombo and chipya woodland
Kipemba area, Kalumbila Distr.
Oct 2022
Photo: Nick Wightman

Flower & achenes
Miombo and chipya woodland
Kipemba area, Kalumbila Distr.
Oct 2022
Photo: Nick Wightman

Flower
Miombo and chipya woodland
Kipemba area, Kalumbila Distr.
Oct 2022
Photo: Nick Wightman

Habit with rootstock
Miombo and chipya woodland
Kipemba area, Kalumbila Distr.
Oct 2022
Photo: Nick Wightman

Rootstock
Miombo and chipya woodland
Kipemba area, Kalumbila Distr.
Oct 2022
Photo: Nick Wightman

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Frequency:	Locally common
Status:	Native
Description:	An erect perennial herb to c. 120 cm. tall, from a semi-woody narrowly turbinate taproot; stems solitary, branched above, glabrous or sparsely glandular-setulose, often purple-tinged; leaves contemporaneous with flowers or sometimes delayed, cauline, up to c. 10 x 2.5 cm., oblanceolate-elliptic, undivided, obtuse mucronate, remotely denticulate and ciliate on the margins, bases attenuate to semi-amplexicaul, glabrous or sparsely setulose on the midrib and main nerves; upper leaves decreasing in size towards the stem apex becoming linear-lanceolate; synflorescences paniculate up to 40 cm. long, occasionally much reduced and spicate; branches up to c. 15 cm. long; capitula stalked or subsessile, solitary or in clusters of 2–4; involucres 7–9 x 1.5–2 mm. at time of flowering, increasing to 12 x 2.5 mm. in fruiting capitula, cylindric, glaucous to purple-tinged; phyllaries ciliolate above otherwise glabrous, the outermost ± narrowly ovate, the innermost up to 11 x 2.5 mm., narrowly lanceolate; florets c. 5 per capitulum; corollas yellow, up to c. 11 mm. long, the tube c. 5 mm. long, cylindric, glabrous; achenes reddish-brown, 4.5–5 x 1.75–2 mm. (including the c. 0.5 mm. long beak) flattened-ellipsoid, margins swollen, narrowly 1-ribbed, rarely 2–3-ribbed on each face, hispidulous; pappus several-seriate of white, barbellate setae c. 5–6 mm. long.
Type location:	DRC
Notes:
Derivation of specific name:	homblei : after Henri Antoine Homblé, Belgian botanist who collected the type specimen in Katanga Province of DRC
Habitat:	Brachystegia and Chipya woodland
Altitude range: (metres)
Flowering time:	Oct - Dec
Worldwide distribution:	DRC (Katanga) and Zambia
National distribution:	W
Zambian distribution (Provinces):	Nw
Growth form(s):	Perennial.
Endemic status:	Near Endemic
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Images last updated:	Saturday 3 December 2022
Literature:	Pope, G.V. (1992). Compositae Flora Zambesiaca 6(1) Pages 199 - 202. (Includes a picture).

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Lactuca homblei
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Lactuca homblei
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Lactuca homblei
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IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Lactuca homblei
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Lactuca homblei
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