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- Taraxacum Erythrosperma
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- Alata
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- Croceiflora
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- Piceata
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- Dilatata
- Stenoglossa
- Trilobata
- Pannulata
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- Acutifida
- (S)T Bracts erect sub-erect spreading
- Appressed
- Arcuate
- bl6-7
- bl7
- bl7-8
- Border wide pale
- Bordered
- Bordered clear white
- Bordered distinctly
- Bordered slightly
- bw2
- bw2-3
- Ciliate
- Claw shaped
- Erect
- Erect on bud
- inrolled
- Length<12
- Length>18
- Messy
- Narrow white border
- Neat ruff
- Oblong
- Ovate
- P < 10mm length
- Pale green above
- Pink tipped
- Purple suffused above
- R(rec) Arcuate recurved tip
- radiate wheel spokes
- Recurved
- Reflexed
- S(pat) Spreading (patent)
- Sigmoid
- Spreading
- Spreading arcuate
- Spreading erect
- Spreading suberect
- Twisted
- U Unbordered
- Unbordered
- Upturned tips
- V Bordered
- Width <6
- Width<1.5
- Width<2
- Width<2.5
- Width<3
- Width<3.5
- Width<4
- Width<4.5
- Width<5
- Width<5.5
- X < 3.5mm wide
- Black bud apex
- Glabrous scape
- Hairy scape
- Ligules brown-purple
- Ligules dark purple
- Ligules grey-purple
- Ligules greyish-brown
- Ligules red-purple
- Ligules short
- Ligules striped pink
- Ligules tipped blackish
- Ligules tipped purple
- Ligules tipped reddish
- Long achene cone
- Pollen absent
- Pollen plentiful
- Pollen present
- Pollen sometimes
- Stigmas dark yellow
- Striped dark brown
- Striped grey-purple
- Striped grey-violet
- Striped purple
- Teeth yellow
- (w)x Sometimes teeth on lower / proximal edge
- Blotched
- Blotched edge interlobes
- Blotched interlobes
- Blotched slightly
- Blotched sometimes
- Convex proximal margins
- Crowded overlapping
- Cucullate lobes
- Entire
- Entire distal/upper edge entire
- Forward pointing
- Heterophyllous
- Interlobes toothed
- Interlobes unblotched mainly lacking blackish / cu
- Lateral 1-4
- Lateral 2-4
- Lateral 2-5
- Lateral 3-4
- Lateral 3-5
- Lateral 3-6
- Lateral 4-5
- Lateral 4-6
- Lateral 4-7
- Lateral 4-8
- Lateral 5-6
- Lateral 5-7
- Lateral 5-8
- Lateral 6-10
- Lateral 6-12
- Lateral 6-7
- Lateral forward pointing
- Lateral lobes proximal/lower edge curved back
- Lateral lobes proximal/lower edge hooked curved ba
- ll4-5
- ll4-6
- Lobes alternate
- Lobes dentate
- Lobes often double
- Lobes spaced
- Patent
- Proximal margin teeth
- Proximal/lower edge entire lacking teeth
- q(r) Entire (dentate) distal upper edge
- r Toothed distal / upper edge
- Recurved
- Scarcely blotched
- Scythe-like
- Short
- Smudged interlobes
- Spathulate
- Spatulate
- t Interlobes toothed
- t(dist) Interlobes toothed (distant lobes)
- Terminal acuminate-extenuate
- Terminal broad trilobate
- Terminal hamate
- Terminal helmet
- Terminal large
- Terminal long-sagittate
- Terminal mucronate
- Terminal narrow elongated
- Terminal obtuse-rounded
- Terminal onion spire
- u Unblotched interlobes
- Unblotched
- v(mid) Interlobes blackish / dark (cut to midrib)
- Variously directed
- w Proximal lower edge entire
- x Teeth on proximal / lower edge
- z Proximal lower edge hooked curved back
- z(rec) Proximal edge recurved
- b Curled crisped plicate
- b(int) Interlobes curled crisped
- c Mid green
- d Dark green
- f Leaves narrow elliptical
- g Upper surface glabrous / scarce hairs
- h Hairy
- Small
- Spotted
- Unspotted
- Z Homophyllous no marked leaf difference
- Acute apex
- Ascending
- Black-edged midrib
- Contorted
- Crisped
- Crisped slightly
- Dark bluish-green
- Dark dirty green
- Dark green
- Dark grey-green
- Decumbent
- Deeply dissected
- Erect
- Flat
- Glabrescent
- Hairy
- Heterophyllous
- Homophyllous
- Lanceolate
- Lanceolate-spathulate
- Leaves Spotted
- Linear
- Mid-green
- Midrib bright purple
- Midrib dull purple
- Midrib white-green
- Narrow laceolate
- Narrow oblong
- Oblanceolate
- Oblong
- Oblong-spatulate
- Obovate
- Pale green
- Prostrate
- Punctate black spots
- Shortly hairy
- Skeletal
- Slightly crisped
- Small spots sometimes
- Spathulate
- Suberect
- Terminal rounded lobules
- Unblotched
- Broad expanded wings
- Broadly winged
- Green
- Greenish-pink
- Inner faint pink / green
- Inner pink Outer pallid
- Long and narrow
- Midrib green-pinkish
- Midrib greenish
- Narrow unwinged
- Narrow winged base
- Obsolete
- Outside whitish
- Parallel winged
- Petioles broad
- Pink
- Purple
- Reddish
- Sheathing
- Short
- Unwinged
- White
- White outer
- White-green
- Winged +/-
- Winged base
- Wings lobate
- Wings long parallel
- (A)(B) Petioles green or purplish
- B Petioles all pink / purple
- D Petiole unwinged (very slight)
- F Midrib coloured / pinkish
- F(G) Midrib coloured (green)
- F(thr) Midrib pinkish threaded
- G Lower midrib green / concolorous
- H Scape hairy below capitula
- Achene orange-brown red
- Achene red
- J(red) Reddish ligule teeth
- K Ligule teeth yellow
- L Stigma styles discoloured
- M Stigma styles yellow
- N Ligule stripe grey to violet
- O(purp) Ligule stripe purple
- O(red) Red ligule stripes
- Pollen Absent
- Pollen Present
- Pollen Absent
- i Entire / toothed edge
- i(tri) Not subdivided trilobate
- l Sigmoid / concave edge
- m Helmet shaped / cucullate / convex
- n acute / mucronate / sharp apex
- n(ling) Acute acuminate lingulate sharp apex
- VC11 S.Hampshire
- VC23 Oxfordshire
- VC24 Buckinghamshire
- VC32 Northants
- VC34 W.Gloucestershire
- VC49 Caernarvonshire
- VC62 NE.Yorkshire
- VC65 NW.Yorkshire

Hamata

135.025.116 Taraxacum sahlinianum
Hamata

135.025.113 Taraxacum prionum
Celtica

135.025.103 Taraxacum chrysoglossum
Celtica

135.025.092 Taraxacum palustrisquameum
Celtica

135.025.088 Taraxacum olgae
Celtica

135.025.069 Taraxacum calophyllum
Celtica

135.025.093 Taraxacum amicorum
Celtica

135.025.066 Taraxacum atrocollinum
Celtica

135.025.064 Taraxacum britannicum
Naevosa

135.025.057 Taraxacum cornubiense
Naevosa

135.025.051 Taraxacum hirsutissimum
Naevosa

135.025.047 Taraxacum naevosum
Spectabilia

135.025.040 Taraxacum palmeri
Spectabilia

135.025.039 Taraxacum serpenticola
Erythrosperma

135.025.029 Taraxacum tortilobum
Erythrosperma

135.025.011 Taraxacum haworthianum
Erythrosperma

135.025.009 Taraxacum parnassicum
Erythrosperma

135.025.004 Taraxacum scanicum
Hamata

135.025.120 Taraxacum lancidens
Taraxacum - Acutifida

135.025.234 Taraxacum angustisquameum

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