Taraxacum aequilobum

Leaves broad-lanceolate to lanceolate,18–30 cm long, 4–10 cm wide, dark green, glabrous; lateral lobes in (3–)4–6 pairs, triangular to falcate; distal margins plane to denticulate, sometimes with an acute lobule; proximal margins plane, not incised to the midrib and thus with broad interlobe areas; terminal lobe triangular to sagittate with a distinct mucro, margins plane; petiole usually red and winged, midrib green. Scapes 14–27 cm long at anthesis, 32–34 cm long in fruit, white-woolly in bud, becoming glabrous at maturity except just under the capitulum, pale red below and often green above. Capitula 3.5–5 cm diam.; outer involucral bracts lanceolate, 9–16 mm long, (2.5–)5–9 mm wide, patent to unevenly reflexed, sometimes twisted, narrowly but clearly white-bordered, hair-fringed, apices dark, mainly callosed; innermost involucral bracts linear, 12–18 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, mainly callosed. Outer florets with slightly involute ligules, exceeding the involucre by 5–14 mm; anthers with abundant pollen; stigmas greenish-yellow. Achenes fusiform, c. 4 mm long, 1 mm wide, with straight spines less than 0.3 mm long at the apex, smoth to the base, light brown; cone conical, 0.5–0.7 mm long; beak 8–9.5 mm long. Pappus c. 6 mm long. Flowers and fruits mainly Sept.–Apr.