Taraxacum subbracteatum

Leaves lanceolate to oblanceolate, c. 10–20 cm long, 2–6 cm wide, glabrous; lateral lobes in 4–6 pairs, deltoid, distal margins of upper 2 or 3 lobes entire or with 1(–3) patent, acute lobules, proximal margins entire, usually convex; petiole brown-purple with interwoven green strands, narrowly winged. Scapes c. 8–10 cm long at anthesis, c. 20 cm long in fruit, usually ebracteate. Capitula 2–3 cm diam.; outer bracts ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 3–8 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, erecto-patent, not laciniate, very narrowly white-bordered (c. 0.1 mm), not callus-tipped; innermost bracts linear, 12–18 mm long, 1.5–2.5 mm wide, not callus-tipped. Outer ligules flat, exceeding involucre by 4–6 mm; anthers with pollen; stigmas greenish-yellow. Cypselas broadly fusiform, c. 3 mm long, 0.8 mm wide, straw-coloured, with minute spines at apex, smooth in the lower two thirds; cone conical, 0.3–0.8 mm long; beak 0.8–8 mm long; pappus c. 5 mm long. Flowers Sept.–Apr.