Iris nectarifera
Iris nectarifera
Ballı kurtkulağı
Plant 25-53 cm. Rhizomes stout with long stolons. Leaves 6-8, falcate, green, 0.8-1.3 cm broad. Bract and bracteole 7-9.5 cm, green, flushed brownish-red. Perianth tube 2-4 cm; falls lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 6-7.5 x 2.3-2.5 cm, strongly veined and flushed purple on a white or pale yellow ground, with a median signal patch of deeper purple, bearded on claw with a band of yellow hairs c. 0.8 cm broad; standards obovate, 7-8.5 x 3.7-4.2 cm, whitish or pale yellow with slightly purplish veining; style branches 3.5-4.5 x 1.8-2 cm, with erect to slightly recurved lobes 1.1-1.5 x 1-1.2 cm. Capsule fusiform shortly acuminate, 4.5-6.5 x 1.7-2 cm; seeds 0.7-1 cm, rugose with a large aril.
1. Perianth tube 3.5-4 cm; leaves 0.9-1.3 cm broad var. nectarifera
1. Perianth tube 2-2.5 cm; leaves 0.8-0.9 cm broad var. mardinensis
Endemic. Ir.-Tur. element.
