Taraxacum pachymerum

Leaves lanceolate, 10.5–29 cm long, 2.5–7.5 cm wide, green, glabrous, polymorphic during the flowering period: in the early flowering period lateral lobes in 3 or 4(–5) pairs, deltoid, patent to downcurved, distal margins usually with one acute tooth, proximal margins mostly entire, rarely with one acute tooth, not dissected close to the midrib and thus with broad interlobe areas; terminal lobe rounded-triangular, broadly mucronate, margins entire; in the late flowering period lateral lobed in 3 or 4(–5) pairs, deltoid and down-curved. Distal margins with 1 or 2 acute teeth, proximal margins entire, not dissected to the midrib and thus with broad interlobe areas; terminal lobe rouded triangular, broadly mucronate, margins plane; petiole red, broadly winged above, midrib red basally grading to green distally. Scapes 8–10 cm long at anthesis, 12.5–23 cm long in fruit, woolly-hairy in bud becoming glabrous at maturity, rarely hairy just under the capitulum, entirely red. Capitula 3–3.5 cm diam., outer involucral bracts lanceolate 9–13 cm long, 2.5–3.5 mm wide, patent to gently downcurved, some twisted sideways, narrowly but clearly white-bordered, hair-fringed, apices dark, not callosed; innermost outer involucral bracts narrow lanceolate, 15–20 mm long, (1–)2.5–3.5 mm wide, not callosed. Outer florets with a flat ligule narrowed at the apex exceeding the involucre by 2–6 mm; anthers with pollen; stigmas greenish-yellow. Achenes turbinate 4.5–4.7 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide with straight spines about 0.3 mm long on the upper third, smooth to the base, light brown; cone conical grading to cylindrical 0.5–0.7 mm long; beak 7–8 mm long. Pappus 6–8 mm long. Flowers and fruits mainly Sept.–Apr.