Taraxacum kernianum

Leaves lanceolate 8.5–13 cm long, 2–5 cm wide, green, glabrous; lateral lobes in 4 or 5 pairs, deltoid and often cordate; distal margins deeply incised, proximal margins plane to sparsely dentate, incised almost to the midrib and thus with narrow and often incised interlobe areas; terminal lobe sagittate to trilobed, mucronate, the margins plane; petiole sparsely striated purple or green basally grading to green distally. Scapes 5–9 cm long at anthesis 15–22 cm in fruit, white-woolly in bud but glabrous at maturity except under the capitulum, entirely purple. Capitulum c. 3 cm diam., outer involucral bracts narrow lanceolate 8–9 mm long, 2–2.5 mm wide, down-curved, very narrowly but clearly white-bordered, apices dark, not callosed; innermost involucral bracts linear c. 10 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, not callosed. Outer florets with a flat ligule exceeding the involucre by 5–7 mm, anthers with pollen, stigmas greenish-yellow. Achenes fusiform to turbinate 3.3–3.4m long, c. 1 mm wide with straight spines less than 0.3 mm at the apex verrucate to smooth to the base, light brown, cone conical 0.3–0.4 mm long; beak 10–11 mm long. Pappus 5–8 mm long. Flowers and fruits Sept.–Apr.