Taraxacum multidentatum

Leaves lanceolate, 9–30 cm long, 20–90 mm wide, hairy to glabrous; lateral lobes in 5–8 pairs, markedly dimorphic, in early flowering plants broadly deltoid with finely denticulate distal margins and entire proximal margins, in later flowering plants deltoid-caudate, the tail often long and expanded at tips; distal margins of the upper 2 or 3 lobes ± laciniate with 1 or 2 longer ± parallel lobules, proximal margins entire or with 1 acute lobule; terminal lobe acute, hastate to trilobulate; petiole relatively short, rose-purple, sometimes narrowly winged. Scapes 6–10 cm long at anthesis, 15–25 (–30) cm long in fruit. Capitula 3–3.5 cm diam.; outer bracts broadly lanceolate to lanceolate, 8–10 mm long, 2–4 mm wide, patent to recurved, with white borders c. 0.25 mm wide and tips with a large callus c. 1.5 mm high; innermost bracts linear, 16–17 mm long, 1–3 mm wide, usually with a large apical callus to 1 mm high. Outer ligules flat, exceeding involucre by 3–5 mm; anthers usually with pollen; stigmas greenish-yellow. Cypselas narrowly fusiform, 4–5 mm long, 0.75–1.25 mm wide, very pale brown to salmon-pink or dark red-brown, with flattened, straight spines less than 0.3 mm long at apex, usually smooth, rarely verrucate in lower two thirds; cone 1.2–1.5 mm long; beak 8–10 mm long; pappus 5–7 mm long. Flowers Sept.–Apr.