Taraxacum holmboei
| Taraxacum holmboei | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Tribe: | Cichorieae |
| Genus: | Taraxacum |
| Species: | T. holmboei |
| Binomial name | |
| Taraxacum holmboei H.Lindb. | |
Taraxacum holmboei, Troödos dandelion is a rosulate perennial herb, up to 10 cm high. Leaves simple, all in rosette, deeply divided (pinnatifid), with deltoid-acute lobes, glabrous, oblong in outline, 3.5-10 x 8-2.5 cm. Flowers in capitula, with yellow, ligulate florets, flowering May-June (hysteranthous, flowers appearing after leaf development). Fruit a pappose achene.[1]
Habitat
Open pine forests, roadsides, dry hillsides with open vegetation on igneous rocks at 1100-1950 m altitude.
Distribution
Endemic to Cyprus where it is confined to the Troödos Mountains where it is locally common: Platania, Karvounas, Troodos Square, Almyrolivadho, Khionistra and Prodromos.
References
- ↑ 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
- http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-973769/stock-photo-taraxacum-holmboei-wildflower-of-cyprus.html
- http://www.plantbuzz.com/Alpine-L/ATOW/page52.jpg
- http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/gcc-37327
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