Taraxacum sect. Emodensia

Systematics
Taraxacum sect. Emodensia includes about 13 species and is centered in Sichuan, Yunnan and the southern part of Tibet, whereas species diversity decreases towards westwards. Taraxacum dilutissimum is the most widespread species with a distibution ranging from the SE Tibet and the W Himalaya to Middle Asia (Kirschner & al. 2020: 225)B
Description
Petiole narrow; leaf blade deeply pinnatisect. Involucre 6–10 mm wide, base usually narrowly rounded. Outer phyllaries usually numerous (to 25), deep green to dark green, linear-lanceolate or linear, appressed or loosely so, usually distinctly pale bordered, apex conspicuously horned or corniculate. Ligules usually yellow, rarely whitish. Stigmas yellow to yellowish green. Achene variously colored, straw-colored brown, dark red-brown, ochraceous, or dark blackish gray; body ± densely spinulose above, usually subabruptly narrowing into a usually subcylindric (0.8–)1–1.4(–1.9) mm cone, spinules straight and erect to erect-patent; beak usually 5–7 mm. Pappus white. Sexual or agamospermous.
from: Ge X., Kirschner J. & Štěpánek J. in Wu Z. Y. & al. (ed.), Flora of China 20–21: 291. 2011, Beijing & St Louis.
from: Ge X., Kirschner J. & Štěpánek J. in Wu Z. Y. & al. (ed.), Flora of China 20–21: 291. 2011, Beijing & St Louis.