Iridaceae |
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Iris L. |
I. paradoxa Steven in Mem. Soc. Nat. Most 5:355 (1817). Figure 14. Map 57. Plant 10-25(-40) cm. Rhizome compact, non-stoloniferous. Leaves 4-6, falcate, greyish-green, 0.2-0.5 cm broad. Bract and bracteole 4-8 cm, green or tinged pinkish-brown. Perianth tabe 1.5-3 cm; falls ± oblong, 2.5-4 x 1-1.5 cm, truncate at apex with revoiute margins, upper surface almost entirely covered with a dense blackish-purple or violet, rarely golden-brown beard, ground colour usually dark purple or violet with a pale V-shaped mark in centre and white marks at apex, sometimes also on margins; standards broadly obo-vate, 5-9 x 3.3-6 cm, white or purple, often strongly veined deep violet, apexemarginate; style branches whitish to golden-yellow spotted brown, or dark purple, 2.1-3 x 1.1-1.5 cm, with short crenulate erect lobes 0.3-0.4 x 0.4-0.6 cm. Capsule and seeds not seen. Several colour forms have been named but in Turkey only the following has been recorded: f. choschab (Hoog) Mathew & Wendelbo in Rech. fil., Fl. Iranica 112:31 (1975). Syn: /. paradoxa Steven var. choschab Hoog in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, 29:104, f. 45 (1901);/. medwedewii Fomin in Monit. Jard. Bot. Tiflis 14:43 (1909). Ic: J. Roy. Hort. Soc. 90: f. 21 (1965), as var. choschab; Rech. fil., Fl. Iranica 112: t. 13 f. 1 (1975), as /. paradoxa; Mathew, The Iris col. t. 5 (1981). Falls deep violet with a blackish-violet beard; standards white or lilac, strongly veined purple; style branches cream or golden-yellow, heavily spotted brown or purplish. Fl. 4-6. Edges of fields, stony mountain steppe, 1750-2800 m. Type: [Turkey B9 Van] between the East Armenian town of Van and the lake of Urrniah in North-western Persia .... near the small village of Choschab (Hoşap), a collector for Messrs. Van Tubergen (specimen not traced). E. Anatolia. B9 Van: 5 km W. of Gürpinar, 1750 m, Mathew & Tomlinson 4212! N.W. Iran, Transcaucasia. Ir.-Tur. element. |