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Taraxacum assemanii BLANCHE |
 Taraxacum assemanii BLANCHE |
Taraxacum WIGGERS |
| T. assemanii Blanche in Boiss., Fl. Or. 3:791 (1875). Syn: T. primigenium Hand.-Mazz., Monogr. Tarax. 17 (1907) pro parte; T. primigeniforme van Soest in Proc. Koninkl. Nederl. Akad. Wetensch. ser. C, 69:364 (1966)! Plant base hairy. Leaves narrowly obovate or lanceolate, often shortly lobate or sharply dentate. Involucre narrow (3-4 mm broad), c. 8 mm long; outer phyllaries narrowly ovate or lanceolate, short (up to 3.5 mm), blackish or pale pinkish-brown, with a narrow whitish margin. Ligules pale yellow, � red on outside. Stigmas pure yellow. Achenes straw-coloured, inconspicuously elongated into cone; pappus 4 mm, very pale brownish. Fl. 7-8(-9). Damp places in calcareous mountains, mostly above 2000 m. Type: [Lebanon] ad fontes et rivulos supra Dimam et ad Hasram, Blanche (holo. G, iso. JE!). S.W., S. & E. Anatolia. B8 Siirt: Meleto (Meretug) Da., 2700-2750 m, Hand.-Mazz. 2904! B9 A�ri: W. of Ele�kirt, 2475 m, Uotila 19542! C1 Mu�la: Sandras Da., 1900 m & 2000 m, Quezel et all C3 Isparta: Anemas Da., 1524 m and/or 1829 m, 1845, Heldr.l C4 Antalya: G�nukdere, E. side of Ak Da., S. of Geyik Da., 1100 m, D. 14298! Konya: between N. Karaca De. and U� Pinar, S. of Bozkir, 2000 m, D. 14596! C5 Ni�de: Bulgar Da., in valley at foot of Metdesis summit, 2743 m, Kotschy 152x! above Bulgar Maden, Bal. 644 (type of T. primigeniforme)! N. Iraq, Lebanon, Syria. Ir.-Tur. element. There is confusion in the numbering of the Kotschy specimens; the Bulgar Da. locality is mentioned under 152c (cf. 6. T. oliganthum) as well as Gisyl Deppe. A specimen from C4 I�el (Anamur, �amurlu Y. to Olucak, 2000 m, D. 16299!) may belong to T. assemanii. When no achenes are present, T. assemanii can easily be confused with T. bithynicum D C.; in the latter the pappus is white and a beak is present. |