Taraxacum subericinum

Leaves lanceolate, 8–15 cm long, 2–3.5 cm wide, green, glabrous; lateral lobes mostly in 5 or 6  pairs, hook-shaped to deltoid, distal margins prominently and often deeply lobed, proximal margins predominantly entire, incised almost to the midrib and thus with narrow interlobe area, terminal lobe rounded triangular, often mucronate, margins entire or with a pair of small teeth; petiole with sparse red striations on a green background, unwinged, midrib sparsely striated red on green basally grading to green distally. Scapes 3.5–5 cm long at anthesis, 19–22 cm long in fruit, sparsely white-woolly in bud, glabrous at maturity, entirely red. Capitulum c. 3 cm diam.; outer involucral bracts 4–6 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, narrow-lanceolate, mildly downcurved, very narrowly white-bordered, apices dark, not callosed; innermost involucral bracts linear 11–13 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, not callosed. Outer florets with a flat ligule, exceeding the involucre by c. 5 mm; anthers with pollen; stigmas greenish-yellow. Achenes fusiform to turbinate 3.4–3.9 mm long, c. 1 mm wide, with straight spines less than 0.3 mm long at the apex, smooth to verrucate to the base, light brown; cone c. 0.4 mm long, conical; beak 8–10 mm long. Pappus 5–6 mm long.  Flowers and fruits Sept.–Apr.