Asteraceae
Lactuca

Lactuca schweinfurthii Oliv. & Hiern

First published in Fl. Trop. Afr. 3: 452 (1877)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Cameroon to South Sudan and S. Tropical Africa.

Distribution

Native to:

Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, DR Congo, Malawi, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • in F.T.A. 3: 452 (1877).

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • C. Jeffrey in Kew Bulletin 18: 448 (1966).
  • C.D. Adams in Flora of West Tropical Africa 3: 293 (1963).
  • Dethier in Bulletin du Jardin Botanique National de Belgique 52: 381 (1982).
  • F. W. Andr., The Flowering Plants of the Sudan 3: 38 (1956).
  • G.V. Pope in Flora Zambesiaca 6: 201 (1992).
  • Lawalrée, Dethier & Gilissen in Flore d'Afrique Centrale Compositae: Cichorioideae: 58 (1986).
  • Oliv. & Hiern in Flora of Tropical Africa 3: 452 (1877).

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Schweinfurth [4015] K000251874 Type Yes
Maitland, T.D. [1396] Cameroon K000027613 No
Gossweiler, J. [13843] Angola K001307260 No

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of West Tropical Africa

    • Flora of West Tropical Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0