Biology:Taraxacum aphrogenes
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
Taraxacum aphrogenes | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Genus: | Taraxacum |
Species: | T. aphrogenes
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Binomial name | |
Taraxacum aphrogenes Meikle
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Taraxacum aphrogenes, the Paphos dandelion, is a perennial, lactiferous, rosulate, hairless herb, up to 12 cm high. Leaves all in rosette, simple, divided almost to midrib, into unequal, bluntish, suborbicular lobes, fleshy, oblong, 3-8 x 0.3-2 cm. Flowers in capitula, with yellow, ligulate florets. Flowers October–December in advance of the leaves. Fruit a pappose achene.[1]
Habitat
Rock and sandy soils by the coastline.
Distribution
Endemic to Cyprus, it is restricted to the Paphos District where it is locally common, especially at Akamas from Ayios Yeorgios Peyias to Karavopetres: Erimites. Also at Kato Paphos, Yeroskipou and Petra tou Romiou.
References
External links
- http://wildlifetravelling.blogspot.no/2012/11/cyprus-19th-november-2012.html
- http://forum.plantarium.ru/viewtopic.php?id=24942
- http://gardenbreizh.org/photos/karlostachys/photo-312911.html
- http://www.planetefleurs.fr/Systematique/Asteraceae/Taraxacum_aphrogenes.htm
- http://www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/sbf/chypre/pt/056.jpg
Wikidata ☰ Q18387986 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taraxacum aphrogenes.
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