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Two New Dandelion Species Discovered in Spain
Two New Dandelion Species Discovered in Spain | Science | Epoch Times: "Two new species of dandelion,
Taraxacum decastroi and Taraxacum lacianense, have been discovered in Spain, in the Pyrenees and Cordillera Cantábrica mountains respectively, according to a study published in Annales Botanici Fennici.
These newly discovered species have long leaves and saffron-yellow flower heads. Like many species of Taraxacum, the plants have little or no pollen, as the seeds are produced without fertilization.
Classifying the new species took a fair amount of work, according to lead researcher Antonio Galán de Mera from the Department of Biology (Botany) at San Pablo-CEU University in Madrid.
“We had to compare them with numerous examples from Europe (above all in Spain and Portugal), which were lent to us from the collections of other colleagues,” he said in a press release from Spanish news agency SINC."
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