Iridaceae

I. reticulata Bieb., Fl. Taur.-Cauc. 1:34(1808). Figure 14.
Plant 7-15 cm. Bulb sometimes producing many bulblets at base. .Leaves 2, scarcely visible to slightly exceeding flower at anthesis, elongating to 30 cm in fruit stage, 4-angled or ± terete with 8 ribs. Bract green, rather rigid and closely sheathing perianth tube. Perianth tube 4-7 cm; falls 3.8-5 cm, blue, violet or purple, usually with a dark lamina and a paler, strongly veined claw and yellow median ridge; claw 2.1-3 x 0.5-1 cm; lamina ovate, 1.1-1.8 x0.7-1.3 cm, obtuse to subacute; standards oblanceolate, 3,5-5 x 0.4-0.6(-i) cm, uniformly blue, violet or purple; style branches 3-4 x 0.5-0.9 cm, lobes 0.6-1.4 x 0.2-0.5 cm, obtuse to acute, sometimes dentate. Capsule erect, carried at or just above ground leveL 2n - 20.
1. Leaves 4-angled; falls blue, violet or purple with or without a yellow median ridge ' var. reticulata
1. Leaves ± terete with 8 ribs; falls (in Turkish specimens) with a dark violet apex, a whitish claw and no yellow median ridge var. bakeriana
var. reticulata. Syn: /. reticulata Bieb. var. krelagei Regel in Gartenflora 22:354, t. 779 (1873);/. reticulata Bieb. var. sophenensis Foster in Card. Chron. n.s. 23:470 (1885); /. reticulata Bieb. Tar. atropurpurea Dykes in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, 45:113 (1909); Iridodictyum reticulatum (Bieb.) Rodion., Rod Iris 202 (1961). Ic: Bot. Mag. 92: t. 5577 (1866); Reds, ill., Fl. Iranica 112: t. 16 f. 2 (1975); Mathew, The Genus Iris coL t. 34 (1981). Map 58. Fl. 3-6. In mountain grassland, stony slopes end in scrub, 900-2700 m.
Type: [USSR, Caucasia] habitat In Iberia, D. Adam (toto. LE?).
E. Anatolia. A9 Kars: Sarikamiş pass, 2700 m, Furse & Synge 210! B7 Elazig/Diyarbakir: Maden to Ergani, Sauer 57/141! Erzincan: Kemaliye,Sari-konak, 1500-1550 m, Giiner 1639! B8 Bingöl: d. Bingöl, Çukurca, 1330 m, Güner 1632! B9 Erzurum: Tahir pass, W. side, 2400-2500 m, Lamond 2646! C6 Maras: Akher Dagh (Ahir Da.), 1800 m, Balls 931! C7 Urfa: Karaca Da., 1550 m, T. Baytop (ISTE 41767)! C8 Mardin: Mardin to Savur, Dereyani, 1050 m, Güner 1601! C9 Hakkari: Hakkari to Uludere, Süvari Halil pass,1950-2200 m, Güner 1669! C10 Hakkari: Şemdinli, Ümit Tepesi, 1650 m, T. Baytop (ISTE 26121)!
N. Iraq, N., N.W. & W. Iran, Transcaucasia. Ir.-Tur. element,