Taraxacum simile

Leaves lanceolate to oblanceolate, 10–27 cm long, 2.5–6 cm wide, green, sparsely hairy to glabrous; lateral lobes in 3 or 4 pairs, deltoid and acute with entire distal margins, proximal margins entire or with 1 or 2 teeth, interlobes broad in the early flowering period, subsequently narrowing, entire or with a few short teeth, terminal lobe helmet-shaped in outline to sagittate; petioles red, narrowly winged, midribs red basally, green apically. Scapes (3–)10–15(–19) cm long at anthesis, (15–)25–30(–45) cm long in fruit, white-woolly in bud, becoming glabrous at maturity except just under the capitulum, pale red basally, green distally. Capitula 3–4 cm diam.; outer involucral bracts lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 7–14(–18) mm long, 2–4.5 mm wide, abruptly recurved, white-bordered (c.0.2 mm wide), callosed; inner involucral bracts linear, 10–18 mm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, variably callosed. Outer florets mainly involute, exceeding the involucre by 2–8 mm; anthers without pollen or with a few small grains; stigmas grey to greyish-yellow. Achenes fusiform 3.5–4.5 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide olive-grey to black, with erect spines 0.3–0.4 mm long at the apices verrucate below; cone cylindrical (0.6–)1 mm long; beak 8–10 mm long. Pappus 4.5–6 mm long. Flowers and fruits mainly Sept.–Apr.