Iridaceae


Iris caucasica
subsp caucasica

Iris caucasica
subsp caucasica
Iris L.
Iris caucasica HOFFM. subsp. caucasica HOFFM.
Ömür: Çok yıllık
Yapı: ot
Hayat formu:
İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 6
Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 6
Habitat: kayalı yamaçlar ve dağ stepleri
Minimum yükseklik: 2200
Maksimum yükseklik: 2300
Endemik: -
Element: Avrupa-Sibirya
Türkiye dağılımı: KD. Anadolu
Genel dağılımı: Kafkasya
Bulunduğu kareler :A7 A8 A9 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 B10 C10
I. caucasica Hoffm. in Cornm. Soc. Phys. Mosc. 1:40(1808).
  Plant (8-)10-i8 cm. Bulb 1.5-2.5 cm diam. Leaves (4-)5-7, well developed at anthesis, 5-Î5 cm, (0.5-)0.8-2 cm broad at base, lanceolate, falcate, green above, markedly greyish-green below; margin white, smooth to ciliate. Stem concealed by leaves, or with intemodes just visible at anthesis, usually elongating later with clearly visible intemodes. Bract and bracteole ± equal, ventriccse, green, membranous, acuminate or long-tapering. Flowers 1-4, greenish-yellow, rarely a paie dirty bluish-green with a bluish blotch on falls; perianth tube 34-(-4.7) cm; falls (3-)3.54 cm, daw winged, (l.l-)1.5-2.5 x 1-1.8 cm, lamina elliptic, (0.9-)l.1-2 x 1-1.6 cm, rounded: crest darker yellow or orange, crenuiate; standards patent or re flexed, linear, oblanceolate to ± 3-lobed, i.3-2.5 x 0.2-0.8 cm;style branches 2.3-3.5 cm. Capsule c. 3 x 1 cm, ellipsoid; seeds c. 3 rnm.
1. Leaf margins and/or veins on underside distinctly ciliate or scabrid, especially towards apex or leaf subsp. caucasica
1. Leaf margin and/or veins on underside smooth subsp. turcica
subsp. caucasica
. Ic: Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. 3: t. 255 (1828); Recti, fil., Fl. Iranica 112: t. 6 f. 5 & t. 17 f. 3 (1975). Map 59. FL 6. Rocky slopes and mountain steppe, 2200-2300 m.
  Type: [USSR] in coilibus apricis circa Tifüs, Hb. Steven (hoio. H).
  N.E. Anatolia. A9 Kars: Yalnizçam Da., Yalnizçam to Ardanuç, 2300 m, D. 29649! Çoruh: Ardanuç, above Urumdesre castle, 2300 m, Güner 1430!
  Caucasus. Euro.-Sib. element.