Taraxacum sect. Glabra
Description
Herbs small, glabrous. Leaves undivided. Outer phyllaries blackish green, ± not imbricate, ovate-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, erect to arcuate-patent, without a paler border, margin glabrous, apex acute and ± flat. Achene long, slender, usually 4.3–5.7 × ca. 0.8 mm; body smooth or very sparsely spinulose or tuberculate above, very gradually narrowing into a subcylindric to cylindric 0.4–0.8 mm cone; beak 5–7 mm, thin. Pappus white or yellowish white, 5–6 mm.
from: Ge X., Kirschner J. & Štepánek J. in Wu Z. Y. & al. (ed.), Flora of China 20–21: 316. 2011, Beijing & St Louis.
from: Ge X., Kirschner J. & Štepánek J. in Wu Z. Y. & al. (ed.), Flora of China 20–21: 316. 2011, Beijing & St Louis.
Distribution
Asia-Temperate: Altay ‒ native; Amur ‒ native: presence questionable; Kazakhstan ‒ native; Khabarovsk ‒ native: presence questionable; Kirgizistan ‒ native; Magadan ‒ native: presence questionable; Mongolia ‒ native; West Siberia ‒ native; Xinjiang ‒ native Asia-Tropical: West Himalaya (Jammu-Kashmir ‒ native) Europe: East European Russia ‒ native; Italy ‒ introduced: reported in error; North European Russia ‒ native