H. Benntje (2005) Crepis. Flora of Somalia 478-479
Plants usually perennial herbs, less often annual or biennial herbs, with white latex. Leaves mostly in basal rosettes. Inflorescences corymbose or of solitary capitula. Involucres cylindric-campanulate; phyllaries unequal, the outermost short and often extending down the peduncle, the inner ins 2 series, often becoming keeled and inflated proximally; receptacles usually without bracts, sometimes with hairs or bracts between the flowers. Flowers many; anthers sagittate, auriculate at the base, the auricles acute or acuminate; style arms long and slnder. Achenes narrowly terete or fusiform, many ribbed, distally attenuate into a long beak (when mature); pappuses of barbellate bristles.
Crepis includes about 200 species. They are native in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America.
The Flora of Somalia reports two species from Somaliland, one of which also grows in Somalia.