Taraxacum holmboei
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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.
