Taraxacum pseudofontanum van Soest (1959: 94)

Štěpánek, Jan & Kirschner, Jan, 2022, A hotspot of endemism: Oreophytic Taraxacum species (Compositae, Crepidinae) in the mountains of Bulgaria, Phytotaxa 569 (1), pp. 1-139 : 13-14

Taraxacum pseudofontanum van Soest (1959: 94)

Type:— L 2628 , no. det. 19696, holotype (herb. van Soest 33797)!, see also Kirschner & Štěpánek (2014: 175) .

Doll (1978: 641):—“Diese Art fanden wir mehrfach am Fusse des Musalla sowie bei der Malowitza-Hütte in Weiden, Wiesen und an Bächen“.

Herbarium voucher specimens:—There are three herbarium sheets determined as T. pseudofontanum by R. Doll. Sheet I: Flora von Bulgarien, Rila-Gebirge, Musalla-Hütte. 12 Jul [19]76, R. Doll [as Taraxacum pseudofontanum ] ( JE, no. det. 19264); three plants in flower, two of them belonging to T. vile . Sheet II: Flora von Bulgarien, Rila-Gebirge, Malowitza-Hütte. 16 Jul [19]76, R. Doll ( JE, no. det. 19265), originally determined as T. pseudofontanum vel T. parsennense ; three leaf rosettes, mostly with achenes. They belong to T. sect. Crocea. Sheet III: Flora von Bulgarien, Rila-Gebirge, Musalla-Hütte. 12. 7. [19]76., R. Doll [as Taraxacum pseudofontanum ] ( JE, no. det. 19516). Sheet III contains a single plant with an empty scape and an envelope with achenes; the material is not in a condition to be evaluated.

Interpretation:—All the plants we were able to interpret belong to T. sect. Crocea; one of them can be assigned to T. vile , a species described below. None of the specimens is close to T. pseudofontanum of the Alps.