Liliaceae

G. confusa Terracc, in Boll. Soc. Ort. Palermo ser. 2, 3:5 (1904). Syn: G. minimoides Pascher in Sitz.-Ber. Deutsch. Naturw.-Med. Ver. Böhm. 'Lotos* n.s. 24:126(1904)! Ic: Davliarddze, op. cit. t. 28(1976); Rix & Phillips, Bulb Book 75(g) (1981).
Bulbs with dark brown tunics, new bulb arising inside old, with several dark-tunicated bulblets c. 1 mm. Basal leaf 1, narrowly lanceolate, 7-15 x0.2-0.4 cm, fiat, glabrous, longer than inflorescence. Inflorescence 4-16 cm, glabrous; branching usually corymbose from above lowest bract, but on large specimens with cauline leaf subtending a 1-flowered branch. Cauline leaf 1, lanceolate, 2.5-8 x 0.3-1 cm, amplexicaui, equal to or shorter than pedicels, glabrous or with scattered crisped hairs; bracts and bracteoles lanceolate to lisear. Flowers 1-7, conical or rather narrow at base. Pedicels nodding in bud, 2-.56 cm, not elongating in fruit, glabrous. Perianth segments greenish or reddish outside, yellow inside, 8-15 x 2-6 mm, obtuse. Capsule 3-7 x 4 mm, obovate. Fl. 5-8. Bare soil and turf by snow patches, shady rocks, 1800-3660 m.
Type: [Iran] in jugo Charsan prope Kaswin, 28 iv 1882, Pichier (iso. K.!).
Mainly E. Anatolia. B9 Van: gorge by bridge c. 12 km W. of Ho§ap, 1800 m, Rix Î906! BiO Ağri: Doğubayazit, Bubu to Ipagli, Schischkin. C5 Niğde: Ala Da., Ulupinar, 2400 m, Carle & Kürschner 79-421! C9 Hakkari: Cilo Da., 3660 m, D. 24177! CIO Hakkari: Vadinasor Tepe, 2300 m, Watson 5626!
Caucasia, Iran, N. Iraq, C. Asia (Turkmenia). Ir.-Tur. element. Related to the European G. minima (L.) Ker-Gawler.