Taraxacum fontanum

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 337-338

20. T. fontanum group. Leaves 4-12 cm, very wide, entire to dentate or lobed, bright green, ascending or erect, hairy; lobes, if present, variable, few, wide, acute, dentate with acuminate teeth, the terminal lobe large, wide, more or less obtuse; petiole widely winged, long-dentate. Scapes 5-15 cm, rather robust, green, hairy, exceeding the leaves. Involucre 10-15 x 10-15 mm; outer bracts 6-12 mm, lanceolate, green, without a pale margin, erect or recurved, usually glabrous. Ligules long, narrow, orange-yellow, with a stripe. Achenes brownish; body 3-4 mm, tuberculate in the upper part; cone 0-2-0-7 mm, conical; beak 7-10 mm,

often white, slender. Apomictic. • Alps, W. Carpathians-, Corse. Au Co Cz Ga He It Ju Po Rm Rs (W).

18 species have been described, mainly from the Alps. The following have a relatively wide distribution:

T. croceicarpum Van Soest , Veröff. Geobot. Inst. Rübei (Zurich) 42: 118 (1969). He It Ju.

T. fontanicola Van Soest , Acta Bot. Neerl. 8: 108 (1959). Au Cz He It Po Rm Rs (W).

T. fontanosquameum Van Soest , op. cit. 110 (1959). 2« = 25. Au Ga He.

T. fontanum Hand.-Mazz. , Monogr. Taraxacum 100 (1907). AuHe.

T. magnopyramidophorum Van Soest , Veröff. Geobot. Inst. Rubel (Zürich) 42: 118 (1969). He It Ju.

T. pohlii Van Soest , Acta Bot. Neerl. 8: 113 (1959). 2л = 32. Au He It.