Liliaceae

F. michailovskyi Fomin in Monit. Jard. Bot. Tiflis 1:18 (1905). Ic: Lily Year Book 33: t. 25 (1969);Gartenpraxis 1/82: 11, t. 4 (Î982).
Bulb to 3 cm diam., sometimes with a few bulblets. Stem 6-24 cm, smooth. Leaves 5-9, all alternate or lowest subopposite, lanceolate;lowest 5-9 x 1-1.5 cm. Flowers I A, broadly campanulate, purplish-brown, or occasionally greenish outside, apical 1/4-1/3 yellow, inside yellow; outer segments 2-3.2 x 0.9-1 cm, inner 1-1.5 cm broad. Nectaries linear, tapering from blunt and usually dark-coloured base, yellow, 10-13 x 2 mm,notraised, Filaments 6-9 mm,very sparsely papillose. Style 7-9 mm, 3-fid; branches 2-3 mm, smooth. Capsule not winged, dead perianth remaining attached to base. Fl. 5-6. Screes and open stony hillsides, 2000-3000 m.
Type: [Turkey A9 Kars] in regione alpino montis Askjar-dagh, S J. Michaii-ovsky (holo. TBI).
E.Anatolia. A9 Kars: 10 km W. of Sarikamiş, 2100 m, Rix et al. 1662! B9 Ağri: Tahir pass, 2500 m, Rix et al. 1636! Erzurum: ÇakmakDa. nrKarayazL 2370 m, Watson et al. 1628!
Endemic. Ir.-Tur. element. Vary close to the F. crassifolia complex but strikingly different in flower colour. Probable hybrids with F. arassifolia subsp. kurdica are known from Kuh-i-Sahand in N.W.-Iran (see Rix. in Iran. J. Bot. 1(2):86,1977).

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