Taraxacum sp. group 1

Leaves lanceolate to lyrate, often to over 30 cm long and relatively broad, initially arachnoid-hairy, becoming glabrous; blade shallowly to deeply lobed; proximal lobe margins often lobulate to laciniate; petioles and midribs green or uniformly purple. Capitula 2–4 cm diam.; outermost involucral bracts ovate-lanceolate, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, erecto-patent to abruptly reflexed, with apical callus, uniformly or variously oriented in a single capitulum, variously coloured; white borders present. Marginal ligules exceeding involucre, sometimes scarcely so; pollen present or absent; stigmas lime-green to grey. Cypselas dark olive-brown, olive-grey, straw-coloured or black, markedly spinulose above, verrucate to smooth below; cone cylindrical, (0.5–) 1–1.5 mm long; beak longer than body of achene; pappus  4.5–8 mm long. Flowers Sept.–Apr.