Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl
Leontodon L.
, legitimate, scientific
[Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2]:
798
[tax. nov.]
[Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5]:
349
[secondary reference]
[Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3]:
680
[secondary reference]
[Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 3]:
315
[secondary reference]
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Lectotype:
Leontodon taraxacum L.
[Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4]:
659
[secondary reference]
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Etymology:
"Neo-Greek name meaning "lion's tooth" and formed as a translation of the French dent-de-lion (dandelion), a plant which was placed by Linnaeus in this genus. The name was an allusion to the sharp leaf-lobes."
[Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4]:
940
[secondary reference]
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Etymology:
"Neo-Greek name meaning "lion's tooth" and formed as a translation of the French dent-de-lion (dandelion), a plant which was placed by Linnaeus in this genus. The name was an allusion to the sharp leaf-lobes."
[Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2]:
386
[secondary reference]
[Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales]:
81
[secondary reference]
[Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2]:
593
[secondary reference]
[Lander, N.S. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Asteraceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2]:
689
[secondary reference]
[Murray, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Leontodon. Flora of New South Wales 3]:
333
[secondary reference]
[Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Asteraceae. Flora of Victoria 4]:
708
[secondary reference]
[Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2]:
512
[secondary reference]
[Anderberg, A.A., Baldwin, B.G., Bayer, R.G., Breitwieser, I., Jeffrey, C., Dillon, M.O., Eldenäs, P., Funk, V., Garcia-Jacas, N., Hind, D.J.N., Karis, P.O., Lack, H.W., Nesom, G., Nordenstam, B., Oberprieler, C., Panero, J.J., Puttock, C., Robinson, H., Stuessy, T.F., Susanna, A., Urtubey, E., Vogt, R., Ward, J. & Watson, L.E. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2007), Compositae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 8]:
197
[secondary reference]
[Thompson, I.R. (22 May 2007), A taxonomic treatment of tribe Lactuceae (Asteraceae) in Australia. Muelleria 25]:
91
[secondary reference]
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APC Dist.:
WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)
[Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3]:
479
[secondary reference]
[Enke, N., Gemeinholzer, B. & Zidorn, C. (2012), Molecular and phytochemical systematics of the subtribe Hypochaeridinae (Asteraceae, Cichorieae). Organisms Diversity and Evolution 12(1)]:
14
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Hedypnois Mill.
legitimate
[Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census]:
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APC
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Hedypnois Mill.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Hedypnois Scop.
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
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APC Dist.:
WA (naturalised), NT (formerly naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)
[Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Leontodon. Flora of Australia 37]:
140
[secondary reference]
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Etymology:
"from the Greek leontos (lion) and odontos (tooth), probably alluding to the deeply toothed leaves."