《中国植物志》|| 菊科 COMPOSITAE ||红果蒲公英组 Sect. 16. Erythrosperma (H. Lindb. f.) Dahlst. ||灰果蒲公英 Taraxacum maurocarpum Dahlst.

64.灰果蒲公英（中国高等植物图鉴）川藏蒲公英 图版16: 5-8
Taraxacum maurocarpum Dahlst. in Act. Hort. Gothob. 2: 175. f. 12, t. 3, f. 16-18. 1926; S. Y. Hu in Quart. Journ. Taiwan Mus. 22: 656. 1969;中国高等植物图鉴4: 682.图6778. 1975; V. Soest Fl. Iran. 122: 284. 1977; 西藏植物志4: 932. 1985.
多年生草本。叶狭披针形，长7-12厘米，被疏柔毛或几无毛，边缘羽状深裂，具齿，少数外叶近全缘，每侧裂片（3-）4-6片，裂片平展或倒向，狭三角形或近线状披针形，全缘，顶端裂片狭戟形或长圆状披针形，先端尖，全缘。花葶长于叶，高10-25厘米，无毛或上端有蛛丝状毛；头状花序直径约30毫米；总苞长10-11毫米，总苞片干后淡墨绿色；外层总苞片披针形至卵状披针形，等宽或稍宽于内层总苞片，先端狭长，有短或较长的小角，粉红色，具较狭的膜质边缘；内层总苞片线形，先端具短或稍长的小角或多少有些扩大；舌状花黄色，边缘花舌片背面有暗紫色条纹，柱头和花柱黄色。瘦果倒卵状长圆形，灰色至深灰褐色，长2.5-4毫米，上部1/5-1/3具小刺，其余部分具小瘤状突起乃至近平滑，顶端缢缩成长约1毫米的圆锥形喙基，喙长4-8毫米；冠毛长5-6毫米，淡污黄色。
产青海、四川西部（甘孜州、阿坝州）及西藏等省区。生于海拔3000-4500米高山草坡、河边。伊朗、阿富汗、巴基斯坦也有分布。模式标本采自四川康定。

《Flora of China》|| Asteraceae || Taraxacum ||灰果蒲公英 Taraxacum maurocarpum

47. Taraxacum maurocarpum Dahlstedt, Acta Horti Gothob. 2: 176. 1926.

灰果蒲公英 hui guo pu gong ying

Herbs 5-6 cm tall, delicate. Petiole narrow; leaf blade deep green, broadly linear, 3-5.5 × 0.6-0.9 cm, sparsely arachnoid, deeply lobed; lateral lobes 3-5 pairs, narrowly triangular, recurved, margin entire; interlobe margin entire; terminal lobe elongated sagittate. Scapes ± overtopping leaves, sparsely arachnoid but more densely arachnoid below capitulum. Capitulum ca. 2.5 cm wide. Involucre ± narrowly rounded to broadly obconic, 6-7 mm wide. Outer phyllaries 14-19, blackish green, linear-lanceolate, outermost ones 5-9 × 0.9-1.3 mm, unequal, and 1/3-2/3 as long as inner ones, loosely appressed, with a paler indistinct ca. 0.2 mm wide border, margin sparsely ciliate, apex attenuate and with a evident blackish 0.7-1 mm horn; inner phyllaries blackish, 1.1-1.2 cm. Ligules yellow; outer ligules flat, outside striped grayish purple; inner ligules with blackish teeth. Stigmas blackish. Anthers polliniferous; pollen grains irregular in size. Achene blackish brown, 3.3-3.7 × ca. 1 mm; body apically minutely spinulose, subabruptly narrowing into a subconic 1-1.1 mm cone; beak ca. 7 mm. Pappus yellowish white, 5-6 mm. Fl. summer. Agamosperm.

● Alpine grasslands; ca. 4000 m. W Sichuan.

We did not see material confirming reports of Taraxacum maurocarpum from Qinghai, Xizang, and Yunnan (FRPS 80(2): 70. 1999; Higher Pl. China 11: 785. 2005).