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Internal ID UUID643fcfbe49742245694940
Scientific name Sonchus ustulatus
Authority Lowe
First published in Trans. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 4(1): 22 (1831)

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Sonchus ustulatus, also known as leituga, is a species of herb in the Asteraceae family that is commonly found on rocky shorelines near or on islands owned by Portugal and Spain. This perennial plant can either have a very short stem or no stem at all and typically grows to be around 0.2 meters tall. It is herbaceous and produces oxygen. There are three known subspecies of Sonchus ustulatus, including imbricatus (or Lowe), maderensis, and ustulatus. This species has been found in various locations, such as San Cristóbal de la Laguna, Distrito Anaga, Funchal, Calheta, and Sа̄o Vicente.

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Sonchus ustulatus subsp. maderensis Aldridge Bot. Macaronés. 2: 91 (1977)
Sonchus ustulatus subsp. ustulatus Lowe

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World Flora Online wfo-0000093074
Tropicos 2728507
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:250388-1
The Plant List gcc-49304
Open Tree Of Life 1078371
Observations.org 149298
NCBI Taxonomy 50215
IPNI 250388-1
iNaturalist 738485
GBIF 3105734
EPPO SONUS
EOL 6251173
Wikipedia Sonchus_ustulatus

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Plastomes of Sonchus (Asteraceae) endemic to the Atlantic Madeira archipelago: Genome structure, comparative analysis, and phylogenetic relationships Kim HB, Lee DG, Kim SC PLoS One 22-Jun-2023
PMCID:PMC10286973
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0287523
PMID:37347743
An empirical assessment of a single family‐wide hybrid capture locus set at multiple evolutionary timescales in Asteraceae Jones KE, Fér T, Schmickl RE, Dikow RB, Funk VA, Herrando‐Moraira S, Johnston PR, Kilian N, Siniscalchi CM, Susanna A, Slovák M, Thapa R, Watson LE, Mandel JR Appl Plant Sci 25-Oct-2019
PMCID:PMC6814182
doi:10.1002/aps3.11295
PMID:31667023

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