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Crocus brachyfilus

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Species of flowering plant

Crocus brachyfilus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Iridaceae
Genus: Crocus
Species: C. brachyfilus
Binomial name
Crocus brachyfilus
I.Schneid.
Synonyms
  • Crocus elegans (Rukšāns) Rukšāns
  • Crocus speciosus subsp. elegans Rukšāns

Crocus brachyfilus, synonym Crocus elegans, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Crocus of the family Iridaceae. It is found in Turkey.

Description

Crocus brachyfilus is a herbaceous perennial geophyte growing from a corm. The corm is subglobose in shape 10–12 mm in height and 10–20 mm wide. The membranous corm has dark brown tunics. The corms produce two leaves typically but sometimes one or three. The flowers opening before the leaves are produced. The hairless, 3–5 mm wide, linear leaves are green with a longitudinal white stripe. The single, fragrant, light to deep blue flower blooms in the fall. The flowers have white throats and are striped with approximately five dark blue veins. The filaments are white, hairless with deep yellow or sometimes creamy white anthers. The pollen is yellow. The styles are as long or longer than the anthers and have many slender, reddish-orange (sometimes yellow-orange) branches.

Distribution and ecology

Native to Konya province in Turkey, on limestone formations at altitudes of 1700 1800 meters, in clearings of Abies cilicica woods growing with Cedrus libani and Pinus nigra var. pallasiana.

Etymology

The species name "brachyfilus" refers to the short filaments (brachys means short, and filum means filament).

References

  1. "Crocus brachyfilus I.Schneid". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  2. ^ SCHNEIDER, INGO (2014). "Crocus brachyfilus (Iridaceae), a new species from southern Turkey". Willdenowia. 44 (1): 45–50. doi:10.3372/wi.44.44107. ISSN 0511-9618. JSTOR 24750912. S2CID 86431711.
Taxon identifiers
Crocus brachyfilus
Crocus elegans
Crocus speciosus subsp. elegans


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