Iris winkleri

Iris winkleri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Iridaceae
Subfamily: Iridoideae
Tribe: Irideae
Genus: Iris
Subgenus: Hermodactyloides
Section: Monolepsis
Species: Iris winkleri
Binomial name
Iris winkleri
Regel
Synonyms
  • Alatavia winkleri (Regel) Rodion.
  • Iridodictyum winkleri (Regel) Rodion.
  • Xiphion winkleri (Regel) Vved.[1]

Iris winkleri (or Winkler Iris) is a species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus of Hermodactyloides and Section Monolepsis. It is a bulbous perennial.

It was discovered by botanists in 1884 and published in the Trudy Sankt-Peterburgskogo botanicheskogo sada (Transactions of the St. Petersburg Botanical Garden) between 1884 and 1885.[2] The plant is named after Konstantin George Alexander Winkler (14 June 1848 - 3 February 1900), a botanist from the University of Tartu in Estonia. Later in 1897, Winkler was made head botanist at Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden.[3]

Habit

The Iris is deemed to be very similar to Iris kolpakowskiana (also part of the Monolepsis section of Hermodactyloides sub-genus), but it has a membranous covering to the bulb. I.kolpakowskiana (the other member of the section) has a netted covering.[4] Another close relative is I. pskemensis (another snowmelt found iris).[5]

It grows to about 10–20 cm tall with blueish-violet flowers which appear in June.[6]

Native

It was originally found in the temperate regions of middle Asia and Kyrgyzstan.[2] It is also found in other former states of the Soviet Union, (including Uzbekistan)[7] and the Tian Shan mountain ranges.[6]

References

  1. "Iris winkleri Regel". theplantlist.org. 23 March 2012. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Taxon: Iris winkleri Regel". Germplasm Resources Information Network (United States Department of Agriculture). Retrieved 11 July 2014.
  3. Walther Killy (editor) Dictionary of German Biography Thibaut - Zycha, Volume 10, p. 555, at Google Books
  4. Cassidy, G.E.; Linnegar, S. (1987). Growing Irises (Revised ed.). Bromley: Christopher Helm. pp. 144–145. ISBN 0-88192-089-4.
  5. "Canadian Iris Society cis newsletter Winter 2013, Volume 57, Issue 1" (pdf). www.e-clipse.ca. 2013. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  6. 1 2 British Iris Society A Guide to Species Irises: Their Identification and Cultivation , p. 283, at Google Books
  7. "Kirgizstan (Asia)". www.ebotany.org. Retrieved 26 July 2014.

Other sources

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