Iris kolpakowskiana

Iris kolpakowskiana
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]
  • Alatavia kolpakowskiana (Regel) Rodion.
  • Iridodictyum kolpakowskianum (Regel) Rodion.
  • Xiphion kolpakowskianum (Regel) Baker
Botanical illustration

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

  1. "Iris kolpakowskiana Regel". theplantlist.org. 23 March 2012. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  2. 1 2 "PlantFiles: Kolpakowski's Tulip". davesgarden.com. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
  3. 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.
  4. "All results for Kolpakowski in Newspaper Archive". myheritage.com. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
  5. "Победа казаков и казахов".
  6. "Kolpakowski Tulip, aka Sun Tulip". www.paghat.com. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
  7. 1 2 Walters, Stuart Max (Editor)European Garden Flora: A Manual for the Identification of Plants Cultivated, p. 354, at Google Books
  8. "Iridaceae Iris kolpakowskiana Regel". ipni.org (International Plant Names Index). Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  9. "Iris kolpakowskiana". www.rhs.org.uk. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  10. Cassidy, G.E.; Linnegar, S. (1987). Growing Irises (Revised ed.). Croom Helm. pp. 145–146. ISBN 9780709907060.
  11. 1 2 Lynch, RichardThe Book of the Iris, p. 164, at Google Books
  12. "Iris kolpakowskiana". www.alpinegardensociety.net. 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
  13. "Reticulata Irises". www.pacificbulbsociety.org. 11 May 2014. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  14. Sasha W. Eisenman, David E. Zaurov, Lena Struwe Medicinal Plants of Central Asia: Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan: Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, p. 5, at Google Books
  15. Kerry Scott Walter, Harriet J. Gillett (Editors) 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants, p. 679, at Google Books

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