Taraxacum hamatulum

Leaves 9–24 cm long, 2–6 cm wide, dark green, sparsely hairy; lateral lobes in 3–5 pairs, mostly hamate, rarely deflexed, deltoid; distal margins plane or with a few acute teeth, proximal margins plane, incised close to the midrib and thus with narrow interlobe areas; terminal lobe rounded triangular and sagittate, the margins plane or with one or two acute lobules; petiole and midrib striated red on green at least basally. Scapes 8–10 cm long at anthesis, 13–35 cm long in fruit, white-woolly in bud, becoming glabrous at maturity except under the capitulum, entirely purple. Capitulum c. 3.5 cm diam.; outer involucral bracts lanceolate, 9–14 mm long, 3–4 mm wide, patent to down-curved, narrowly but clearly white-bordered and hair-fringed, apices dark, rarely callosed; innermost involucral bracts linear, 17–20 mm long, 1.5–2.5 mm wide, sporadically with small calli. Outer florets with a flat ligule exceeding the involucre by 6–7 mm; anthers with pollen; stigmas greenish-yellow. Achenes fusiform to turbinate, 3.3–3.5 mm long, c. 1 mm wide with slightly upturned spines less than 0.3 mm long at the apex, smooth to the base, light brown; cone conical 0.3–0.5 mm long; beak c. 9 mm long. Pappus 5–6 mm long. Flowers and fruits mainly Sept.–Apr.