Taraxacum hamiferum

Leaves lanceolate, 11–26 cm long, 3–6 cm wide, green and sparsely cottony-hairy; lateral lobes in 3–5 pairs, hamate to deltoid and patent; distal margins plane to dentate proximal margins entire or sparsely dentate, incised almost to the midrib and thus with narrow interlobe areas; terminal lobe rounded triangular often sagittate with a terminal mucro, margins entire; petiole sparsely striated purple on green basally grading to green distally. Scapes 11–16 cm long at anthesis, 18.5–31 cm in fruit, white-woolly in bud becoming glabrous at maturity except under the capitulum, purple basally grading to green toward apex. Capitulum 3–4 cm diam., outer involucral bracts narrow-lanceolate, c. 9–11 mm long, 2 mm wide, mildly down-curved, very narrowly white-bordered to unbordered, apices dark, not callosed; innermost involucral bracts linear, 13–14 mm long, 1–2 mm wide and often coalescent, not callosed. Outer florets with a flat ligule exceeding the involucre by c. 7 mm, anthers with pollen; stigmas greenish yellow. Achenes fusiform to turbinate 3.2–3.3 mm long, c. 1 mm wide with straight spines less than 0.3 mm at the apex, smooth to the base, light brown; cone conical 0.2–0.3 mm long. Pappus 5–6 mm long.