Taraxacum mirabile, an enigmatic sexual halophilous endemic dandelion, represents a new section

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.489.1.4" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.489.1.4</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.489.1.4" target="_blank" >10.11646/phytotaxa.489.1.4</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Taraxacum mirabile, an enigmatic sexual halophilous endemic dandelion, represents a new section

Original language description

Taraxacum mirabile Wagenitz (Asteraceae, Cichorieae, Crepidinae), a remarkable but taxonomically unexplored endemic species of Central Anatolia, is examined in detail. It is shown to be a sexually reproducing diploid (2n=16) species. It used to be included in Taraxacum sect. Orientalia in the literature. However, the nrDNA analysis revealed that T. mirabile is remote from that section. Moreover, it exhibits a munber of unique features, such as fleshy leaves with a white, cartilaginous apex, long, dense, bright white tomentum at the plant base, multiple root heads, achenes with an extremely short conical cone and with very few minute spinules, a very narrow involucre with imbricate outer phyllaries, and white, not numerous florets. The most specific feature of T. mirabile is the fine, microscopic sculpture of achene surface, consisting of hair-like protuberances, not known in other Taraxacum species. These attributes, together with the convincing result of the nrDNA analysis, qualify T. mirabile to be recognized as a member of a separate section, T. sect. Echinulata, sect nov. The habitat and distribution of T. mirabile are described, and the character of its endemism is discussed.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10611 - Plant sciences, botany

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Phytotaxa

ISSN

1179-3155

e-ISSN

1179-3163

Volume of the periodical

489

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

NZ - NEW ZEALAND

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

49-64

UT code for WoS article

000626168200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85101924093