Iridaceae

I. spuria L, Sp. PL 39 (1753).
subsp. musulmanica (Fomin) Takht. M Takht. & Fedorov, Fl. Erevana ed. 2: 330, f. 107 (1972). Syzr. /.musulmanica Fomin in Monit. Jard, Bot. Tiflis Î4:46 (1909). Ic: Reck fil., Fl. îranica 1İ2: t. 12 f. i (1975); Wendelbo, Tulips & Irises of Iran t. 68 (1977);Maihew, The Iris col. t. 20. b. & w. t. 22 & 23 (İ98Î). Figure 14. Map 56.
Plant 50-100 cm. Rhizome thick, clothed with fibrous remains of leaf, bases. Leaves (0.5-)0.8-1.7{-2.3) cm broad, rather tough and rigid, greyish-green. Stem usuaily with 1 or 2 erect branches, 2-5-flowered. Bracts and bracteoies 6-12 cm, green with membranous margins. Perianth tube 0.7-1,5 cm. Flowers pale to mid-lilac, veined purple on a whitish or yellowish ground in lower half of falls or white (albinos), signal patch in centre of falls rather small, yellow; falls panduriform, 5.5-7 cm, lamina equal to or slightly shorter than claw, 2.5-3.5 x 2-2.7 cm, claw distinctly winged, 3-3.5 x 0.9-1.2 cm; standards obovate or oblanceoiate, 5-6 x 1.3-2.4 cm; style branches 4-4.5 x 0.7-1 cm, with slightly obliquely acute lobes 0.7-1 x 0.3-0.4 cm. Ovary with a slender beak-like apex c. 1.5-2 cm. Capsules oblong, 4-5 cm, with a beak c. 1.5 cm. Fl. 5-7. Damp meadows, salty flats, alluvial plains, 800-1900 m.
Type: [USSR, Nakhichevan] Elisabethpol, distr. Areschensis prope Nam-etabad-nour; in provincia Erivan, distr. Naehiczevan in salsis humidis prope stationem Davalu (holo. TBI).
Inner Anatolia. A9 Kars: Arpaçay, Maydancik, c. 1700 m, Guner 1573! B5 Kayseri: Yakyali to Yeşilhisar, T. Baytop (ISTE 36799)! B8 Erzurum: Erzurum, Çorak nrGüzelova, 1750m, Güner 1569! Erzincan: S.W. of Tercan, 1450 m, D. 29310! Muş: Manik to Chakej, Schischkin. B9 Van: Hoşap to Havasor, D. 23308! B10 Kars: 3 km E. of Iğdir, 800 m, D. 43839! C5 Niğde: 26 km from Ulukişla to Aksaray, 1100 m, A.Baytop et al. (ISTE 39897)! C9/ 10 Hakkari: Hakkari to Yüksekova, T. Baytop (İSTE 36808)! C10 Hakkari: 30 km from Başkale to Hakkari, 1900 m, D. 44672!
N. & N.W. Iran, Caucasus. Ir-Tur. element.