Taraxacum koraginicola, Cone

Kirschner, Jan, Štěpánek, Jan & Buryy, Vladimir V., 2025, Towards a revision of Taraxacum sect. Borealia (Compositae, Crepidinae) in Siberia and the continental Far East, with special reference to the dandelions of the Altai and Kamchatka, Phytotaxa 679 (1), pp. 1-147 : 15-16

Cone 1.6–1.8 mm long ........................................................................................................................................ 62. T. koraginicola Cone up to 1.3 mm long ................................................................................................................................................................. 17 Achenes with red pigmentation present (red-brown, reddish cinnamon-brown, reddish deep brown, light pinkish grey, pinkish fulvous to light pinkish cinnamon) ................................................................................................................................................. 18 Achenes without red pigmentation (light greyish stramineous-brown, light greyish, deep or dark grey-olivaceous, deep grey or dark grey) .........................................................................................................................................................................................26 Ripe achenes deep red-brown, deep cinnamon-brown or reddish deep brown .............................................................................. 19 Ripe achenes light greyish red to light red, light pinkish to pinkish fulvous, or light fulvous-cinnamon to very light pinkish brown .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 23 Outer phyllaries linear-lanceolate .............................................................................................................................. 41. T. kuvajevii Outer phyllaries ovate to broadly lanceolate .................................................................................................................................. 20 Achene body very sparsely and shortly spinulose, or only tuberculate above ............................................... 40. T. pseudoglabrum Achene body densely spinulose above ........................................................................................................................................... 21 Achenes red-brown, cone subcylindrical to conical, 0.8–1.0 mm long ......................................................................................... 22 Achenes cinnamon-brown to slightly reddish deep brown, cone broadly conical, 0.5–0.7 mm long .................. 57. T. chamarense Achenes usually 4.8–5.3 mm long, cone conical ................................................................................................... 38. T. rubiginans Achenes usually 4.3–4.5 mm long, cone subcylindrical ............................................................................................... 37. T. rufum Outer phyllaries pruinose, with a sharply delimited whitish border ca. 0.3 mm wide; achenes with sparse short squamules or rows of squamules ...................................................................................................................................................... 39. T. crassicarpum Outer phyllaries not pruinose, almost without a paler border, or the border indistinct, to 0.1 mm wide; achenes with sparse or subdense spinules ........................................................................................................................................................................... 24 Achenes with sparse spinules or tubercles; cone subconical; outer phyllaries usually 2.5–3.3 mm wide ..................................... 25 Achenes with subdense or dense spinules; cone cylindrical or subcylindrical; outer phyllaries usually 2.0–2.5 (–2.8) mm wide .... .................................................................................................................................................................................. 21. T. lateritium Outer phyllaries erect to patent; beak ± thickened (at least 0.25 mm thick) ............................................................. 24. T. altaicum Outer phyllaries appressed; beak thin (ca. 0.15 mm) ......................................................................................... 23. T. sublateritium Pollen absent ................................................................................................................................................................................... 27 Pollen developed ............................................................................................................................................................................ 32 Outer phyllaries linear-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate .............................................................................................................. 28 Outer phyllaries broadly ovate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate ............................................................................................................. 29 Stigmas dark discoloured; leaves with linear-triangular or linear-lingulate lateral segments .............................. 42. T. sublacerum Stigmas light discoloured; leaves with deltoid-triangular lateral segments ................................................................ 60. T. dilutum Outer phyllaries usually 11–15 ....................................................................................................................................................... 30 Outer phyllaries usually 9–11 ......................................................................................................................................................... 31 Outer phyllaries with a broad paler zone, with a membranous or whitish-membranous border 0.2–0.4 mm wide ... 50. T. malaisei Outer phyllaries without a paler zone, border whitish, 0.1–0.2 mm wide ....................................................... 59. T. latisquameum Stigmas dark discoloured; cone conical, ca. 0.5 mm long ................................................................................ 22. T. maurolepium Stigmas light discoloured; cone subconical, ca. 0.7 mm long ............................................................................... 29. T. eurylepium Achenes deep grey-olivaceous to dark grey-olivaceous, or dark grey ........................................................................................... 33 Achenes variously light greyish stramineous-brown ..................................................................................................................... 35 Outer phyllaries arcuate-patent to arcuate-subrecurved .......................................................................................... 16. T. ochotense Outer phyllaries appressed to loosely appressed ............................................................................................................................ 34 Achenes 5.0– 5.3 mm long, cone 0.5–0.7 mm long ..................................................................................................... 34. T. lenense Achenes 5.6–5.7 mm long, cone 1.2–1.3 mm long ................................................................................................ 25. T. taimyrense Outer phyllaries erect-patent, arcuate-patent or arcuate-recurved, only a minority of outer phyllaries may be loosely appressed or erect .................................................................................................................................................................................................36 Outer phyllaries appressed to loosely appressed, only a minority of outer phyllaries may be erect .............................................. 41 Achenes usually 4.3–4.8 mm long; outer phyllaries 17–21; cone 0.7–0.8 mm long ...................................... 31. T. tortisquameum Achenes usually 3.0– 4.1 mm long; outer phyllaries 10–16; cone 0.4–0.7 mm long ..................................................................... 37 Cone cylindrical or subcylindrical .................................................................................................................................................. 38 Cone conical to subconical ............................................................................................................................................................. 39 Interlobes dark blotched or spotted brown-purple, with several filiform teeth ....................................................... 18. T. leptoceras –

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