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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Taraxacum F.H.Wigg.

TARAXACUM L., 1753

Capitula solitary on fistular scapes, homogamous. Involucre campanulate; phyll. in several series. Receptacle flat, nude. Florets ligulate; anthers sagittate at base, cells not tailed. Achenes cylindric to fusiform, with long slender beak; pappus-hairs cop. Perennial herbs with stout taproot and rosulate lvs; latex cop. Genus subcosmopolitan, of c. 50 spp. The N.Z. sp. also occurs in southern S. America.

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