Taraxacum aphrogenes, the Paphos dandelion, is a perennial, lactiferous, rosulate, hairless herb, up to 12 cm high. Leaves all in rosette, simple, divided almost to midrib, into unequal, bluntish, suborbicular lobes, fleshy, oblong, 3âÂÂ8 x 0.3âÂÂ2 cm. Flowers in capitula, with yellow, ligulate florets. Flowers OctoberâÂÂDecember in advance of the leaves. Fruit a pappose achene.
Rock and sandy soils by the coastline.
Endemic to Cyprus, it is restricted to the Paphos District where it is locally common, especially at Akamas from Ayios Yeorgios Peyias to Karavopetres: Erimites. Also at Kato Paphos, Yeroskipou and Petra tou Romiou.