Taraxacum latilobum de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle (Q3185)

From Canadian Flora Commons
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Taraxacum latilobum is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Taraxacum
Language Label Description Also known as
English
Taraxacum latilobum de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
Taraxacum latilobum is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Taraxacum

    Statements

    taxon/id/Taraxacum latilobum de Candolle
    0 references
    Taraxacum latilobum de Candolle
    Taraxacum latilobum
    de Candolle
    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
    pissenlit à lobes larges (French)
    large-lobed dandelion (English)
    broad-lobed dandelion (English)
    Large-lobed dandelion (English)
    pissenlit à lobes larges (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
    Flowering summer.
    seaside calcareous slopes
    grassy taluses
    clifftops
    taproots seldom branched.
    Stems 1–7+, erect to ascending, ± purplish, glabrate, sometimes ± sparsely villous distally.
    Leaves 10+, erect to patent;
    petioles ± narrowly winged;
    blades broadly oblanceolate to narrowly obovate (often runcinate), 15–47.5 × 2.5–9 cm, bases attenuate, margins usually shallowly lobed to sometimes lacerate (mostly proximally), lobes retrorse or straight, broadly deltate to triangular, sometimes antrorsely curved apically, acute to acuminate, teeth 5–7 on lobes and in sinuses, irregular, triangular or sometimes lanceolate, terminals broader than laterals, apices obtuse to bluntly short-caudate or acuminate (rarely acute), faces glabrous or glabrate to sparsely pilose or villous.
    Calyculi of ca. 18, reflexed to recurved, ovate to broadly lanceolate bractlets in 3 series, 8–11 × 2–5 mm, margins narrowly scarious, sometimes proximally more widely so, apices acuminate, hornless, ± scarious-erose, tips often purplish and blackish.
    Involucres dark green, often purplish-tinged, campanulate, (13–) 15–23 mm.
    Phyllaries 14–18 in 2 series, lanceolate to linear (outer) or ovate to lanceovate (inner), 1.2–4 mm wide, scarious, narrowly (outer, distal part of inner) or widely (proximal part of inner), apices long-acuminate, hornless, scarious, erose, hyaline, purplish-grayish.
    corollas yellow (outer dark gray striped abaxially, also purplish), 13–17 × 1–1.3 mm.
    Cypselae olive-tan to tan, bodies oblanceoloid, 2.8–3.8 mm, cones terete, 0.9–1 mm, beaks slender, 8–12 mm, ribs 5, wide (with 2–3 rows of tubercles or spines), faces proximally tuberculate, muricate in distal 1/3–1/2, distalmost spines sometimes very sharp, fused in pairs and flattened;
    pappi white to creamy, 6.5–7 mm.