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Taraxacum aphrogenes, the Paphos dandelion, is a perennial, lactiferous, rosulate, hairless herb, up to 12 cm high. Leaves all in rosette, simple, divided almost to midrib, into unequal, bluntish, suborbicular lobes, fleshy, oblong, 3–8 x 0.3–2 cm. Flowers in capitula, with yellow, ligulate florets. Flowers October–December in advance of the leaves. Fruit a pappose achene.
Endemic to Cyprus, it is restricted to the Paphos District where it is locally common, especially at Akamas from Ayios Yeorgios Peyias to Karavopetres: Erimites. Also at Kato Paphos, Yeroskipou and Petra tou Romiou.
Hampshire Dandelion · Japanese dandelion · Taraxacum algarbiense · Taraxacum angustisectum · Arctic Dandelion · Taraxacum atrans · Taraxacum azzizii · Taraxacum balticum · Double Horn Dandelion · Taraxacum brachyceras · Purple Bracted Dandelion · Taraxacum brachyphyllum
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Taraxacum aphrogenes by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
