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Taxon: Taraxacum kok-saghyz L. E. Rodin

Genus: Taraxacum
Family: Asteraceae (alt. Compositae).
Nomen number: 80048
Place of publication: Trudy Bot. Inst. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Ser. 1, Fl. Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 1:187. 1933
Name verified on: 07-Nov-1985 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 30-Jun-2008
Species priority site is: Western Regional PI Station (W6).
Accessions: 33 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • kok-saghyz   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • Russian dandelion   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • Kok-Saghyz   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
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Economic importance:

  • Materials: latex/rubber   (used to be source of latex/rubber during WWII fide Econ Pl Aust)
  • Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Econ Pl Aust)

Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Middle Asia: Kazakhstan [s.e.]; Kyrgyzstan
    China: China [w.]

      Naturalized:
  • naturalized elsewhere

      Cultivated:
  • cultivated elsewhere

References:

  • Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR). (L USSR)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • Hu, S.-Y. 1970. Compositae of China. (Comp China) 655.
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  • Krotov, A. S. 1945. Bot. Rev. (Lancaster) 11:417–461.
  • Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
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Check other databases for Taraxacum kok-saghyz L. E. Rodin:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

  • Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?80048 (09 February 2010)

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