Taraxacum phymatocarpum J. Vahl in G. C. Oeder et al. (Q3188)

taxon name

Taraxacum phymatocarpum

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taxon authority

J. Vahl

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taxon rank

species

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taxon status

accepted

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common name

pissenlit en lyre (French)

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pissenlit de montagne (French)

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harp dandelion (English)

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northern dandelion (English)

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Northern dandelion (English)

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VasCan taxon numeric id

3617

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distribution

CA-QC

present

native

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Herbier du Québec (QUE), Complexe scientifique, Québec. Spécimen. http://www.formulaire.gouv.qc.ca/cgi/affiche_doc.cgi?dossier=1846

Newfoundland, CA

present

native

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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

present

native

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Gray Herbarium (GH), Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, Mass.

CA-NT

present

native

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Porsild, A.E. & W.J. Cody. 1980. Vascular Plants of the Continental Northwest Territories, Canada. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, Ont. 667 pp.

CA-NU

present

native

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Aiken, S.G., M.J. Dallwitz, L.L. Consaul, C.L., McJannet, R.L., Boles, G.W. Argus, J.M. Gillett, P.J. Scott, R. Elven, M.C. LeBlanc, L.J. Gillespie, A.K. Brysting, H. Solstad & J.G. Harris. 2007. Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago: Descriptions, Illustrations, Identification, and Information Retrieval. [CD-ROM] NRC Research Press, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa.

Greenland, GL

present

native

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Böcher, T.W., B. Fredskild, K. Holmen & K. Jakobsen. 1978. Grønlands Flora. P. Haase & Søns Forlag, København. 326 pp.

Greenland

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CA-NL

Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.)

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CA-NT

N.W.T.

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CA-NU

Nunavut

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US-AK

Alaska

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Eurasia

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parent taxon

Taraxacum F. H. Wiggers

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taxon habit

herb

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GBIF taxon key

5394202

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Global Biodiversity Information Facility

IUCN Redlist Category

NE

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Global Biodiversity Information Facility

phenology

Flowering summer.

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taxon habitat

slopes to stream banks

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tundra

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drained areas

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rocky taluses

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gravel

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sand

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clay

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gravelly-turfy limestone barrens

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calcareous

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elevation

0–700 m

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taxon description fragment

Plants 2–12 (–30) cm (longer in fruit);

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d0_s0

taproots branched.

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d0_s1

Stems 1– (2–5), erect to ascending, reddish, glabrous.

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d0_s2

Leaves fewer than 10, usually horizontal, sometimes patent, rarely erect;

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d0_s3

petioles slightly winged;

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d0_s4

blades oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate (sometimes some nearly runcinate), 1.5–8 × 0.2–0.8 (–1.3) cm, bases attenuate, margins usually toothed to denticulate in 1–5 pairs or entire, sometimes shallowly lobed, lobes (and teeth) retrorse or straight, triangular, apices acute to obtuse, faces usually glabrous, sometimes very sparsely villous (mostly along midveins).

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d0_s5

Calyculi of 8–14, appressed to spreading, later reflexed to revolute, sometimes purplish-tinged, broadly ovate or ovate to lanceovate bractlets in 2–3 series, 3–5 × 1.8–2.5 mm, margins not or barely scarious, apices usually acuminate, sometimes acute, hornless, tips slightly scarious-erose.

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d0_s6

Involucres dark to blackish green, narrowly campanulate (urceolate when closed), 9–14 mm.

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d0_s7

Phyllaries 8–12 in 2 series, oblong-lanceolate or broadly lanceolate to lanceovate (inner), 1.8–3 mm wide, margins not or narrowly scarious (outer) to widely so in proximal 1/4–1/2, occasionally purplish, apices sometimes callous, hornless, tips scarious, erose.

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d0_s8

Florets 35–50;

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d0_s9

corollas pale-yellow (sometimes lemon), sometimes drying pinkish (not striped adaxially), outer abaxially gray to purple striped, 10–12 × 2–3.1 mm.

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d0_s10

Cypselae dark-brown, grayish to blackish, bodies oblanceoloid, flattened, (3–) 4–4.5 mm, cones conic, 0.5–0.9 mm, beaks stout, (2–) 3–5 (3/4+ length of body), ribs 15 (5 prominent), faces proximally at least tuberculate, muricate 1/2–3/4+;

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d0_s11

2n = 24, 32, 40.

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d0_s13

morphology statement

whole organism

atypical some measurement

12

30

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d0_s0

whole organism

2

12

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d0_s0

whole organism

growth form

plant

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d0_s0

1

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d0_s2

atypical quantity

2

5

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d0_s2

erect

ascending

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d0_s2

reddish

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d0_s2

pubescence

glabrous

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d0_s2

0

10

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d0_s3

horizontal

usually

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d0_s3

patent

sometimes

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d0_s3

erect

rarely

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d0_s3

leaf petiole

winged

slightly

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d0_s4

oblanceolate

linear-oblanceolate

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d0_s5

length

1.5

8

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d0_s5

atypical width

0.8

1.3

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d0_s5

0.2

0.8

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d0_s5

inflorescence phyllaries base

attenuate

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d0_s5

usually toothed

denticulate

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d0_s5

course

straight

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d0_s5

triangular

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d0_s5

inflorescence flower corolla lobe

entire

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d0_s5

inflorescence flower corolla lobe

lobed

sometimes shallowly

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d0_s5

inflorescence flower corolla lobe

retrorse

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d0_s5

acute

obtuse

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d0_s5

pubescence

glabrous

usually

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d0_s5

pubescence

villous

sometimes very sparsely

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d0_s5

appressed

spreading

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d0_s6

reflexed

later

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d0_s6

vernation

revolute

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d0_s6

purplish-tinged

sometimes

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d0_s6

ovate

lanceovate

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d0_s6

inflorescence bractlet

length

3

5

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d0_s6

inflorescence bractlet

1.8

2.5

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d0_s6

scarious

barely

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d0_s6

acuminate

usually

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d0_s6

acute

sometimes

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d0_s6

hornless

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d0_s6

inflorescence phyllary tip

scarious-erose

slightly

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d0_s6

inflorescence involucre

dark

blackish green

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d0_s7

inflorescence involucre

campanulate

narrowly

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d0_s7

inflorescence involucre

9

14

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d0_s7

inflorescence phyllary

8

12

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d0_s8

inflorescence phyllary

broadly lanceolate

lanceovate

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d0_s8

inflorescence phyllary

1.8

3

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d0_s8

scarious

narrowly

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d0_s8

hornless

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d0_s8

position

proximal

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d0_s8

1/4

1/2

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d0_s8

purplish

occasionally

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d0_s8

callous

sometimes

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d0_s8

inflorescence phyllary tip

scarious

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d0_s8

inflorescence phyllary tip

erose

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d0_s8

pale-yellow

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d0_s10

condition

drying

sometimes

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d0_s10

pinkish

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d0_s10

position

outer

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d0_s10

abaxially gray

purple striped

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d0_s10

length

10

12

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d0_s10

2

3.1

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d0_s10

cone

conic

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d0_s11

cone

0.5

0.9

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d0_s11

fruit beak

fragility

size

stout

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d0_s11

fruit beak

atypical quantity

2

3

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d0_s11

fruit beak

3

5

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d0_s11

leaf rib

15

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d0_s11

tuberculate

proximally at-least

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d0_s11

muricate

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d0_s11

1/2

3/4

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d0_s11

creamy

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d0_s13

white

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d0_s13

atypical some measurement

5.5

7.5

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d0_s13

4

5.5

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d0_s13

chromosome

24

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d0_s13

chromosome

32

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d0_s13

chromosome

40

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d0_s13

root taproot

branched

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d0_s1

inflorescence flower disc floret

35

50

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d0_s9

fruit cypsela

dark-brown

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d0_s11

fruit cypsela

grayish

blackish

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d0_s11

oblanceoloid

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d0_s11

flattened

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d0_s11

atypical some measurement

3

4

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d0_s11

4

4.5

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