Tulipa aleppensis
Tulipa aleppensis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Order: | Liliales |
Family: | Liliaceae |
Subfamily: | Lilioideae |
Tribe: | Lilieae |
Genus: | Tulipa |
Subgenus: | |
Species: | T. aleppensis
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Binomial name | |
Tulipa aleppensis | |
Synonyms[1] | |
Tulipa sintenisii Baker |
Tulipa aleppensis is a wild tulip in the family Liliaceae.[1][2] It is native to Southeastern Turkey, Syria, near Beirut in Lebanon.[1][3]
Description[]
Tulipa aleppensis belongs to the genus Tulipa (family Liliaceae). It is a herbaceous, bulbous perennial. The tunic of the bulb is covered with long straight hairs. It forms stolons.[3] The leaves are erect and grey-green, frequently with wavy margins. They are up to 30 cm long and 5 cm wide.[4] The plant produces only a single cup shaped flower, which is intensely red or crimson on the outside and slightly paler inside. The tepals are pointed, the outer larger than the inner.[4] The plant can be up to 45 cm tall.[5] The basal blotch is oval, black and quite short. It can also be entirely absent; very rarely, it has a narrow yellow border.[3] Filaments and anthers are black,[3] the pollen yellow.[4] The flowers appear from March to May. According to the British botanist Alfred Daniel Hall, it is quite similar to Tulipa praecox, but has brighter flowers.[3] It is triploid. Wilford suspects it of being a variant of Tulipa agenensis or .[4] It is, however, shorter than T. agenensis and has more narrow tepals and a smaller basal blotch.
History[]
The plant was discovered near Aleppo by the German Botanist Carl Haussknecht.[4] It was first described in 1873 by the German botanist Eduard August von Regel.[6] In 1874, described it as Tulipa oculus-solis var. allepica Baker.[7]
As the plant is only found on cultivated land, Wilford suspects that it is a , descended from plants brought from Central Asia by traders.[4] Aleppo is near the end of the Silk Road, after all.
Habitat[]
Tulipa aleppensis is only found on cultivated land,[8] for example, on fields[4] or in mulberry orchards, as recorded by Hall for the Lebanese species.[3] It is listed on the IUCN red List of threatened Species.[9] The plant is only rarely cultivated in gardens. It needs good drainage and protection from summer rain.[7]
References[]
- ^ a b c "Tulipa aleppensis Boiss. ex Regel". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
- ^ "Tulipa aleppensis Boiss. ex Regel". World Flora Online. The World Flora Online Consortium. n.d. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f Anna Pavord, The Tulip. Bloomsbury 1999, 289
- ^ a b c d e f g Richard Wilford 2006, Tulips, species and hybrids for the gardener, Portland, Timber Press, 77
- ^ Anna Pavord, The Tulip. Bloomsbury 1999, 289; 20-30 cm according to Wilford (Richard Wilford 2006, Tulips, species and hybrids for the gardener, Portland, Timber Press, 77)
- ^ Acta horti Petropolis 2, 1873, 450; Gartenflora, Monatschrift für deutsche und schweizerische Garten- und Blumenkunde. Erlangen, Stuttgart, Berlin 1873, 296
- ^ a b Richard Wilford 2006, Tulips, species and hybrids for the gardener, Portland, Timber Press, 78
- ^ Brian Mathew/Turhan Baytop 1984, The bulbous plants of Turkey. Frome; Batsford, 102
- ^ https://www.gbif.org/species/5299566
External links[]
- Tulipa
- Ephemeral plants
- Flora of Western Asia
- Plants described in 1873
- Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier
- Taxa named by Eduard August von Regel
- Flora of Syria
- Flora of Lebanon