Amaryllidaceae |
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Narcissus poeticus L. subsp. poeticus |
Narcissus poeticus L. subsp. poeticus |
Narcissus poeticus L. subsp. poeticus |
Narcissus L. |
N. poeticus L., Sp. PI. 289(1753). subsp. poeticas. Ic: Burbidge, The Narcissus t. 42 (Î 875); Polunin, Fls. Europe t. 173 no. 1671 (1969). Bulb (not seen in Turkish specimens) 17-40 x 12-35 mm. Leaves 20-40 cm x 5-13 mm, flat, ± glaucous. Scape 25 cm or more, compressed. Spathe 35-50 aim, scarious. Flowers solitary, bicoloured. Pedicel 17-30 mm. Hypanthial tube 20-30 mm, cylindrical, slender. Perianth segments pure white, 20-30 x 10-20 mm, narrowly obovate to suborbiculax, limbricate. Corona yellow with red margin, 1-2,5 x 13-17 mm, ± discoid, crenulate. Stamens unequal, in two distinct whorls, upper whorl partly exserted, lower included; anthers dorsifixed on very short filaments. Fl. 4-5. Cultivated and possibly naturalised. Described from S. France (Narbonne) and Italy (Hb. linn. 412/1, photo!). N.W. Turkey, E. Anatolia. A2(E) Istanbul: unloc. (nr Istanbul?), 8 v i 888, Azn.l B9 Van: Van, 1973, cult. A2(A) Istanbul, T. Baytop (ISTE 34957)! S. Europe E. to N.W. Greece; naturalised elsewhere. Subsp. radiiflorus (Salisb.) Baker (İV. radiiflorus Salisb.) occurs in southern C. Europe and the Balkan peninsula. Azaavour's specimen was from a cultivated plant; the ecological status of the plant in Van was not given by T. Baytop. |