Taraxacum aristum

Leaves c. oblong to linear-lanceolate, 8–26 (usually c. 15) cm long, glabrescent; lobes 6–7(–8) each side, short, blunt, deltoid to falcate, distal margins to 5-toothed, 1 or 2 sometimes enlarged into a short lobe; interlobes entire to denticulate; petioles usually purple proximally, very narrowly winged. Scapes 4–18 cm long (to c. 3 times longer in fruit). Capitula 1.5–2 cm diam.; outer bracts appressed to inner series, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 2.5–6(–7) mm long, apiculate with a small dark callus, white-bordered; ligules pale lemon-yellow; outer ligules subequal to inner bracts; stigmas yellow; pollen present. Cypselas fusiform, 4–5 mm long, yellow-brown, dark grey, red to blackish-purple, spinulose above, smooth in the lower third; cone cylindric, 1–1.5 mm long; beak 6.5–9 mm long, longer than cypsela body. Flowers Dec.–Mar.