Iris kolpakowskiana
| Iris kolpakowskiana | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Iridaceae |
| Subfamily: | Iridoideae |
| Tribe: | Irideae |
| Genus: | Iris |
| Subgenus: | Hermodactyloides |
| Section: | Monolepsis |
| Species: | I. kolpakowskiana |
| Binomial name | |
| Iris kolpakowskiana Regel | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Iris kolpakowskiana (or 'Kolpakowski's Iris')[2] is a species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus Hermodactyloides and section Monolepsis. It is a bulbous perennial.
It is pronounced kol-pa-kow-skee-AY-nuh.[2] Sometimes called 'Iris kolpakowskyana'. It was named after the first Russian military Governor of Semirechye Oblast in modern Kazakhstan Gerasim Alexeevich Kolpakovsky.[3][4][5] See also Sun Tulip or Kolpakowski Tulip.[6]
The iris was first described by Regel in the Botanical Magazine No.6489 (1880).[7][8]
Iris kolpakowskiana is now an accepted name by the RHS.[9]
Habit
Its leaves are similar to the iris of the genus Scorpiris, although it has only a few leaves at flowering time, up to 5 cm tall, which then increase up to 30 cm later.[10]
It has pale lilac to pale purple flowers with dark reddish purple falls and yellow orange ridge, coming out in late winter.[7] It flowers in March in the UK.[11]
Native
Iris kolpakowskiana is from the Tien Shan Mountains, Turkestan.[11] where it is found on hillsides (up to 3000m above sea level).[12] It grows in wet sticky clay that dries out in summer.[13] It is also found in Kyrgyzstan.[14] It was on the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants.[15]
References
- ↑ "Iris kolpakowskiana Regel". theplantlist.org. 23 March 2012. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
- 1 2 "PlantFiles: Kolpakowski's Tulip". davesgarden.com. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
- ↑ Foster, Prof. Michael (3 May 1892). "Bulbous Irises". www.archive.org (A Lecture delivered May 3, 1892 to the Royal Horticultural Society). Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ↑ "All results for Kolpakowski in Newspaper Archive". myheritage.com. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
- ↑ "Победа казаков и казахов".
- ↑ "Kolpakowski Tulip, aka Sun Tulip". www.paghat.com. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
- 1 2 Walters, Stuart Max (Editor)European Garden Flora: A Manual for the Identification of Plants Cultivated, p. 354, at Google Books
- ↑ "Iridaceae Iris kolpakowskiana Regel". ipni.org (International Plant Names Index). Retrieved 31 October 2014.
- ↑ "Iris kolpakowskiana". www.rhs.org.uk. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
- ↑ Cassidy, G.E.; Linnegar, S. (1987). Growing Irises (Revised ed.). Croom Helm. pp. 145–146. ISBN 9780709907060.
- 1 2 Lynch, RichardThe Book of the Iris, p. 164, at Google Books
- ↑ "Iris kolpakowskiana". www.alpinegardensociety.net. 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
- ↑ "Reticulata Irises". www.pacificbulbsociety.org. 11 May 2014. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
- ↑ Sasha W. Eisenman, David E. Zaurov, Lena Struwe Medicinal Plants of Central Asia: Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan: Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, p. 5, at Google Books
- ↑ Kerry Scott Walter, Harriet J. Gillett (Editors) 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants, p. 679, at Google Books
Other sources
- Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR). (referred to as Iridodictyum kolpakowskianum (Regel) Rodion)
- Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
- Mathew, B. 1981. The Iris. 177.
External links
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Data related to Iris kolpakowskiana at Wikispecies