Tulipa sintenisii

Muş lalesi

Stoloniferous. Tunics subcoriaceous with soft tawny hairs around basal plate and at neck. Stem 10-30 cm. Leaves 4, glabrous or upper ones dilate, glaucous, channelled, mostly undulate, ± erect, oblong-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 15-27 x 2-6 cm. Flowers orange-red, outside dull or paler, creamy orange or pinkish; blotch black or greenish-black, less thanl/3 length of outer perianth segments, narrow, rim whitish to yellow or absest. Outer perianth segments 40-100 x 16-42 mm, ovate-elliptic to ovate-rhomboid, acute to acuminate; inner 30-85 x 12-30 mm, obovate to obovate-oblong, rounded. Filaments 8-12 mm, black; anthers 10-20 mm, yellow or dark; pollen olive or yellow. Ovary often glaucous, not narrowed below stigma. Capsule 45-57 mm, ellipsoid. Fl. 4-5. Almost invariably in cultivated lands, 1100-2440 m.

Endemic. Ir.-Tur. element.