Taraxacum macrolepium Schischk. Kars Çıtlığı (in Turkish)

Taraxacum macrolepium Schischk. - Kars Çıtlığı (in Turkish)

Scientific Description:

Leaves up to 25 × 6 cm, lobate; side lobes spreading or reversed, ± dentate; terminal lobe dentate, often elongate. Involucre up to 17 mm long; outer phyllaries broadly lanceolate, spreading or reflexed, with a pale margin, without gibbosities. Pollen present. Achenes straw-coloured, 4−4.5 mm (incl. 0.6 mm cone); beak c. 12 mm; pappus white, 8 mm.

 

Flowering time: April−June(−July).

Habitat: Damp pastures, c. 2150 m.

 

Reference:
Van Soest JL (1975). Taraxacum macrolepium Schischkin, In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 5: 805.

Public Description:

Taraxacum macrolepium, known as “kars çıtlığı” in Turkish, is distributed in Türkiye, South and West Syria, and Transcaucasica. It is a perennial small herb with yellow flowers. It blooms between April and June and is found in damp pastures.

 

References:

Anonymous (2016). http://www.tubives.com/index.php?sayfa=1&tax_id=5951, Accessed date: 22.01.2016.

Ekim T (2012). Taraxacum Zinn, In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 207–210.