Taraxacum lapponicum Kihlman ex Handel-Mazzetti (Q3184)

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Taraxacum lapponicum is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Taraxacum
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Taraxacum lapponicum Kihlman ex Handel-Mazzetti
Taraxacum lapponicum is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Taraxacum

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    taxon/id/Taraxacum lapponicum Kihlman ex Handel-Mazzetti
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    Taraxacum lapponicum Kihlman ex Handel-Mazzetti
    Taraxacum lapponicum
    Kihlman ex Handel-Mazzetti
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 19: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 6: Asteraceae, part 1. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Kihlman ex Handel-Mazzetti
    pissenlit de Laponie (French)
    Lapland dandelion (English)
    Lapland dandelion (English)
    pissenlit de Laponie (English)
    1 reference
    Harms, V.L. 2003. Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Saskatchewan and the provincially and nationally rare native plants in Saskatchewan. University of Saskatchewan, University Extension Press.
    1 reference
    Marie-Victorin, Fr. 1995. Flore laurentienne. 3e éd. Mise à jour et annotée par L. Brouillet, S.G. Hay, I. Goulet, M. Blondeau, J. Cayouette et J. Labrecque. Gaétan Morin éditeur. 1093 pp.
    Newfoundland, CA
    1 reference
    Meades, S., S.G. Hay & L. Brouillet. 2000. Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Newfoundland and Labrador. Published in association with A Digital Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador Vascular Plants. http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm (consulted 2009-09-02) http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm
    Labrador, CA
    1 reference
    Meades, S., S.G. Hay & L. Brouillet. 2000. Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Newfoundland and Labrador. Published in association with A Digital Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador Vascular Plants. http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm (consulted 2009-09-02) http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm
    1 reference
    Canadian Museum of Nature (CAN), Gatineau, QC. Specimen.
    1 reference
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 19: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 6: Asteraceae, part 1. Oxford University Press, New York. http://www.efloras.org/volume_page.aspx?volume_id=1019&flora_id=1
    Greenland, GL
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    Böcher, T.W., B. Fredskild, K. Holmen & K. Jakobsen. 1978. Grønlands Flora. P. Haase & Søns Forlag, København. 326 pp.
    Greenland
    Eurasia
    Flowering early summer.
    arctic marshes
    snow patches
    moist areas
    seepage slopes
    high organic contents
    rivers
    brooks
    Plants (3–) 5–37 (–47 in fruit) cm;
    taproots sometimes branched.
    Stems 1–5, erect to ascending, purplish, (usually exceeding leaves), glabrate to sparsely villous proximally, ± densely villous distally.
    sessile (bases sometimes as wide as blade) to ± broadly winged petiolate (occasionally slender on young or deeply shaded specimens, usually at least some ± winged);
    blades oblanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate (often runcinate), (3–) 3.5–27 × 0.6–5 cm, bases usually cuneate, sometimes attenuate, margins regularly and shallowly lobed, sometimes ± deeply (not lacerate) to dentate, lobes mostly retrorse, usually triangular, sometimes deltate or lanceolate, ± acuminate, often replaced by teeth, teeth 0–5 on lobes or irregular, often coarse, triangular to lanceolate, ± acuminate, apices obtuse or acute to short-acuminate, faces glabrous or glabrate, midveins often sparsely villous.
    Calyculi of 10–12, spreading to eventually reflexed, often pale, sometimes purplish-tinged, lanceovate to broadly lanceolate (thin) bractlets in 3 series, 5.5–9.5 × 1.8–2.7 (–4.2) mm, margins not or narrowly scarious, apices long-acuminate, hornless.
    Involucres green to dark green, campanulate to cylindro-campanulate, 12–22 mm.
    Phyllaries 14–18 in 2 series, lanceolate, 1.4–3.2 mm wide, margins not or very narrowly scarious (outer) to narrowly scarious in proximal 1/2 (inner), apices long-acuminate, hornless, tips ± hyaline, blackish and/or purplish, scarious.
    Florets 60–110+;
    corollas yellow (outer abaxially gray and/or purplish striped), 15–22 × 1.1–1.7 mm.
    Cypselae tan to reddish-brown, bodies oblanceoloid, 2.8–3.5 mm, cones conic, 0.5–0.8 mm, beaks slender, 6.5–12 mm, ribs 4–5 prominent (to 13–15 fine), faces proximally smooth to occasionally slightly tuberculate, muricate in distal 1/4–1/3 (spines usually sparse);
    pappi white to cream, 5–7.5 mm. 2n = 32.