Leopoldia buseana

Balansümbülü

Bulb globose to ovoid, 25–50 × 30–55 mm, without bulblets. Outer tunic membranaceous, pale brown to dark brown, sometimes pinkish; inner scales fleshy, pinkish-white. Leaves 3–5, linear-lanceolate, erecto-patent to patent, 10–30 × 1.5–3.5 cm, flat to slightly canaliculate, sometimes undulate, glabrous, ciliate to scabrid at the margin, acute at apex. Scape 1, 15–30 cm long, elongating to 35 cm in fruit. Raceme dense, cylindrical, 10–30 cm × 1.5–2.5 cm, elongating to 40 cm in fruit; number of fertile flowers 40–85, number of sterile flowers 20– 40. Bract minute. Sterile flowers narrowly obconical-cylindrical, 3–6 mm long, pinkish to mauve; pedicels 7–20 mm long, pinkish to mauve, patent to erecto-patent. Fertile flowers cylindrical-urceolate, shoulders sharply angled, 9–12 × 2–4 mm; tube 8–10 mm long, mauve to bluish-mauve at buds and early stage of flowering time; turn to yellowish-brown at proximal and dark maroon to dark brown distally; sometimes with 6 purplish-brown prominent main veins; lobes 1–1.5 mm long, greenish-yellow at first and turn to dark brown, erect to slightly recurved; orifice 1.5–2 mm; pedicel 5–12 mm long in flowers, slightly elongate in fruit, patent to slightly deflexed. Stamen biseriate, above the middle of tube; filaments 0.7–1.5 mm, narrowly triangular, whitish; anther 2 mm long, dark violate. Pollen grains pale yellow, Ovary light green to yellowish green, narrowly conical, 3–3.5 mm long; style yellowish-green, 3–4 mm long; stigma punctate. Capsule broadly obconical to orbicular, broadly trigonous to ovoid-orbicular, obtuse, or emarginate with compressed wing-like valves,1–1.5 × 1.5–2 cm, valves compressed. Seeds 3–6 per capsule, 2.5–2.8 × 2.2-2.5 mm, subglobose; surface smooth, black. Flowering in May–June and fruiting in June–July.

Endemic.