Family: Compositae
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Taraxacum naevosum Dahlst.
Determinations:
Name Det. qual. Type of det. Det. based on specimen Det. by and when Institution
Taraxacum Weber ex F.H.Wigg.Det.E00663040 1989
Lectotype of Taraxacum bipinnatifidum Dahlst.
Collector/Expedition: Johnston, Henry Halcro
Collection number: 3319
Collection date: 18th June 1926
Country/Territory: United Kingdom:Scotland:VC111 Orkney
Collecting locality: United Kingdom:Scotland:(VC 111) Orkney:Public road near the south end of the Loch of Saint Tredwall, Papa Westray
Habitat: Grassy, shell-sandy ditch at roadside
Description: Plants in full flower and sparingly in fruit. Leaves green and not spotted above, pale green beneath, with a green midrib. Outer phyllaries recurved both in flower-bud and in the fully expanded flower; inner phyllaries adpressed below, recuvred above in the fully expanded flowers, simple or gibbous and appendaged at the dark purple apex in the same capitulum. Corolla yellow, striped greenish-purplish beneath in the outer floret. Antehrs yellow. Style and its two recoiled branches darker yellow than the corolla. Fruit-receptacle flattish-convex. Achenes olive-brown, spinnulose-muricate at the apex.
Miscellaneous notes: Native
Kind of specimen: HERBARIUM SPECIMEN/SHEET
Barcode: E00663040
Herbarium region: 1A (Britain and Ireland)
Number of sheets: 1
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