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Taraxacum holmboei

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Taraxacum holmboei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Asterids
Order:
Asterales
Family:
Asteraceae
Tribe:
Cichorieae
Genus:
Taraxacum
Species:
T. holmboei
Binomial name
Taraxacum holmboei

Taraxacum holmboei,Troödos dandelion is a rosulate perennial herb, up to 10 cm high. Leaves simple, all in rosette, deeply divided (pinnatifid), with deltoid-acute lobes, glabrous, oblong in outline, 3.5-10 x 8-2.5 cm. Flowers in capitula, with yellow, ligulate florets, flowering May-June (hysteranthous, flowers bappearing after leaf development). Fruit a pappose achene.

Habitat

Open pine forests, roadsides, dry hillsides with open vegetation on igneous rocks at 1100-1950 m altitude.

Distribution

Endemic to Cyprus where it is confined to the Troödos Mountains where it is locally common: Platania, Karvounas, Troodos Square, Almyrolivadho, Khionistra and Prodromos.

References

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