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Species of flowering plant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Taraxacum holmboei, the Troödos dandelion, is a rosulate perennial herb, up to 10 cm high. Leaves simple, all in rosette, deeply divided (pinnatifid), with deltoid-acute lobes, glabrous, oblong in outline, 3.5-10 x 8-2.5 cm. Flowers in capitula, with yellow, ligulate florets, flowering May–June (hysteranthous, flowers appearing after leaf development). Fruit a pappose achene.[2]
| Taraxacum holmboei | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Taraxacum |
| Species: | T. holmboei |
| Binomial name | |
| Taraxacum holmboei | |
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| Taraxacum holmboei is endemic to Cyprus[1] | |
Open pine forests, roadsides, dry hillsides with open vegetation on igneous rocks at 1100–1950 m altitude.
Endemic to Cyprus where it is confined to the Troödos Mountains where it is locally common: Platania, Karvounas, Troodos Square, Almyrolivadho, Khionistra and Prodromos.
It is named in honour of the Norwegian botanist Jens Holmboe (1880 – 1943).[3]
The diploid chromosome count is 2n = 12.[4]
It is categorized as vulnerable (VU) by The Red Data Book of the flora of Cyprus.[5][4]
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