Author | Richards, A.J. |
Year | 1972 |
Title | The Taraxacum Flora of the BritIsh Isles |
Series | Watsonia offprint |
Type | Book/Report |
How Complete | All the British microspecies known at the time. |
Source | Watsonia offprint, 9, 141pp, Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) |
Illustrations | Line drawings of plants (in apparently random order), four to a page, at the back |
Review (by Malcolm Storey) | Recognises 132 microspecies of Dandelion in five sections. Key to Sections, then Sectional Keys, followed by all the descriptions, giving about half a page to each species, and including the figure number of the drawing. |
Errata, Corrigenda & Comments | Erratum slip states: Page 18: dichotomy 4: for 15 read 17 Page 18: dichotomy 5: for 9 read 10 Page 19: dichotomy 26: for 27 read 28, for 28 read 27 |
Examine | with x8 or x10 hand lens |
Specimen Preparation | Fresh or carefully pressed specimens, carefully collected, during their first flowering period (ie until late May in lowland areas, rarely after end of June on mountain tops - this was before global warming) |
Identification difficulty | Challenging. |
Notes & Purpose | Status | Taxon | English | Classification |
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For identification | Superseded | Taraxacum | dandelions | Plantae: Asterales: Asteraceae |
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