Taraxacum sect. Erythrosperma (H. Lindb.) Dahlst., Acta Fl. Sueciae 1: 36. 1921.

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Taraxacum sect. Erythrosperma (H. Lindb.) Dahlst., Acta Fl. Sueciae 1: 36. 1921.

Taraxacum [unranked] Erythrosperma H. Lindb., Acta Soc. Fauna Fl. Fenn. 29(9): 18. 1908. Basionym.

Taraxacum Erythrosperma ≡ Taraxacum subsect. Erythrosperma (H. Lindb.) Schischk. In Komarov, Fl. SSSR 29: 497. 1964.

Taraxacum Dissimilia = Taraxacum sect. Dissimilia Dahlst., Acta Florae Sueciae 1: 37. 1921. Type: Taraxacum dissimile Dahlst.

Taraxacum Fulva = Taraxacum sect. Fulva M. P. Christ., in Gröntved et al., Botany of Iceland 3(3): 253. 1942. Type: Taraxacum fulvum Raunk.

Taraxacum Proxima = Taraxacum sect. Proxima Doll, Wiss. Z. Univ. Rostock, Reihe Math.-Naturwiss. 17: 330. 1968. Type: Taraxacum proximum (Dahlst.) Raunk. (≡ T. erythrospermum subsp. proximum Dahlst.).

Type.

Designated by Doll, 1974: 60; see Kirschner and Štěpánek (1987), Štěpánek and Kirschner (2012): Taraxacum rubicundum (Dahlst.) Dahlst. ( T. erythrospermum subsp. rubicundum Dahlst.); lectotype in S, designated by Doll 1973: 19: "Stockholm, Djurgardsfrescati", 10 June 1898, Dahlstedt.

Overall description of section Erythrosperma Erythrosperma

Plants mostly small to middle-sized, often forming a tunic of dried leaf leftovers. Leaves usually deeply lobed with narrow lobes and petioles. Scapes often slender, thin. Outer bracts usually small, often with cornicules. Capitulum mostly small, flowers often light yellow, sometimes golden yellow. Achenes mostly red, less often straw-coloured, strongly spinulose with a cylindrical or narrowly conical cone, narrow at the base. Plants bloom in early spring (from mid-April). Related to warm and sunlit habitats.