Taraxacum prionum

Leaves lanceolate (8–)19–33 cm long, 4–7 cm wide, green, sparsely cottony-hairy; lateral lobes in 2–5 pairs, deltoid and patent; distal margins entire or with a few acute teeth, proximal margins entire, incised almost to the midrib and thus with narrow interlobe areas, terminal lobe rounded triangular to helmet-shaped in outline, sometimes three-lobed, the margins plane; petiole densely striated purple on green, unwinged, midrib densely striated purple on green throughout. Scapes (2–)10–12 cm long at anthesis, 26–34 cm long in fruit, white-woolly in bud, becoming glabrous at maturity except under the capitulum, purple near base grading to green distally. Capitulum c. 3 cm diam.; outer involucral bracts lanceolate 7–9 mm long, 1.5–2.5 mm wide, upright to patent or slightly down-curved, narrowly but clearly white-bordered, apices dark, not callosed; innermost involucral bracts linear 12–13 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 3.2–3.4 mm long, c. 1 mm wide with straight spines less than 0.3 mm long at the apex, smooth to the base, light brown; cone conical 0.2–0.4 mm long; beak 5–8 mm long. Pappus 5–6 mm long.  Flowers and fruits Sept.–Apr.