| Taraxacum lateritium Dahlstedt | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Taraxacum cerataphorum (Ledeb.) DC. | ||
| Description | Outer leaves linear-lanceolate, dentate, the inner oblong-lanceolate, with broad, short, deltoid lobes; terminal lobe broad, entire or partly dentate; involucrum dark- colored; outer involucral bracts appressed, ovate, often lacking horns, the inner lanceolate to broadly ovate-lanceolate, with horns up to 1.5 mm long or tuberculate; ligules yellow, with olivaceous to purplish stripes; immature achenes pale brick- colored, mature achenes dark brick-red, with beak longer than body. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, moist places in the mountains. Described from northeasternmost Siberia. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Differs from other taxa of T. cerataphorum (taken in a broad sense) in the char- acteristic color of the achenes. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.