Taraxacum aphrogenes
Appearance
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 |
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
[edit]Rock and sandy soils by the coastline.
Distribution
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ The Endemic Plants of Cyprus, Texts: Takis Ch. Tsintides, Photographs: Laizos Kourtellarides, Cyprus Association of Professional Foresters, Bank of Cyprus Group, Nicosia 1998, ISBN 9963-42-067-2
External links
[edit]- 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