Taraxacum bessarabicum, (Hornem.) Hand.-Mazz.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 333-334

2. T. bessarabicum (Hornem.) Hand.-Mazz. , op. cit. 26 (1907)

( T. serotinum subsp. bessarabicum (Hornem.) Hegi ).

Leaves 5-25 cm, linear-lanceolate in outline, lobed, fleshy, greyish- or reddish-green, sparsely arachnoid-hairy; lobes many, narrow, patent, short, acute. Scapes 5-20 cm. Capitulum 15-20 mm in diameter. Involucre 10-15 x 8-10 mm, often tinged pink; outer bracts 7-8 mm, lanceolate, dark green, with a very wide, pale, moreor less scarious margin, erect to appressed, ecorniculate. Ligules golden-yellow with a silvery-grey stripe, or concolorous. Achenes greyish; body 3-4-5 mm, fusiform, more or less smooth; beak 4-6 mm, stout; cone absent. Pappus greyish-

white. Autumn-flowering. Sexual. 2/7= 16. Saline soils. C. & E. Europe', one station in S. C. France. Au Bu Cz Ga Hu Rm Rs (C, W, K, E).