Iris gatesii

Sason kurtkulağı

Plant 45-50 cm. Rhizome stout, compact. Leaves 5-7, outer only slightly falcate, inner ± erect, greyish-green, 0.5-0.8 cm broad. Bract and bracteole 7.5-11.5 cm, pale green or pinkish-brown. Perianth tube 3-5 cm; segments minutely spotted and finely veined reddish-brown, brownish-purple or nearly black on a whitish or creamy-yellow ground; falls broadly obovate- elliptic, 8-8.5 x 5-8 cm, with a small median brown or blackish signal spot, bearded in lower half with a broad band 2-2.5 cm broad, of long yellowish or brownish-purple hairs; standards broadly obovate to ± orbicular, 8-9.5 x 7-9 cm; style branches 5-7 x 2 cm, with reflexed lobes 1.5-2 x 1.5 cm. Capsule ellipsoid, acute, 7.5 x 2.5 cm; seeds 0.8-1 cm, rugose with a large white aril. Fl. 4-6. Dry slopes, ledges and crevices of limestone rocks, 1050-2000 m.

N. Iraq. Ir.-Tur. element.