Leopoldia longipes
Leopoldia longipes
Buğulu sümbül
Syn: Muscari longipes
Bulb 1.5-4 cm diam.; tunics ivory or pale pinkish. Leaves 3-9, usually twisted or circinnate, linear, 15-50 x 6-32 mm, acute, canaliculate, ±glaucous. Scape 20-60 cm . Raceme lax, 6-50 cm x 5-30 mm, 80-200-flowered. Pedicels of fertile flowers patent or recurved , much longer than perianth, elongating after fertilisation to 50-80 mm to form a tapering oblong to conical inflorescence. Fertile flowers slightly nodding , oblong-conical, 7-12 mm, lower 2/3 of tube beige or mauvish-brown, shoulders sharply angled and dirty white to beige, abruptly constricted above shoulders; lobes blackish. Pedicels of sterile flowers spreading or deflexed, as long as to much longer than the violet, closed, narrowly obovate-oblong sterile flowers. Capsule ovate-elliptic, 9-10 x 5-6 mm, acute. Fl. 4-6. Calcareous steppe, ravines, fallow fields, 550-1525 m.
Transcaucasia, W. Syria, Syrian Desert, N. Iraq, Iran. Ir.-Tur. element.
