Taraxacum sarcidanum

Leaves lanceolate to oblanceolate, 5–12 cm long, 15–30 mm wide, glabrescent; lateral lobes in 4–6 pairs, falcate, proximal margins entire, distal margins of the upper 2 to 3 lobes with 2 or 3 (–4) falcate lobules; petiole light purple, sometimes narrowly winged. Scapes 4–10 cm long at anthesis, 15–26 cm long in fruit. Capitula 2.5–3.5 cm diam.; outer bracts ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 8–12 mm long, 2.0–2.5 mm wide, erecto-patent to recurved, narrowly white-bordered (c. 0.2 mm wide), ciliolate marginally, thickened to callose at tips; innermost bracts linear, 14–16 mm long, 1.5–2.5 mm wide, callus-tipped. Outer ligules flat, exceeding involucre by 3–6 mm; anthers with pollen; stigmas greenish-yellow. Cypselas broadly fusiform, c. 4 mm long, 0.8–1.3 mm wide, bright red-brown, with spines less than 0.3 mm long and straight to slightly incurved at apex, squamulose to verruculose in lower two thirds; cone c. 1 mm long; beak c. 9 mm long; pappus c. 6 mm long. Flowers Sept.–May.