Iris spuria
Iris spuria
subsp. musulmanica: Yayla süseni
Plant 50-100 cm. Rhizome thick, clothed with fibrous remains of leaf bases. Leaves 0.8-1.7 cm broad, rather tough and rigid, greyish-green. Stem usually with 1 or 2 erect branches, 2-5-flowered: Bracts and bracteoles 6-12 cm, green with membranous margins. Perianth tube 0.7-1.5 cm. Flowers pale to mid-lilac, veined purple on a whitish or yellowish ground in lower half of falls or white , signal patch in centre of falls rather small, yellow; falls panduriform, 5.5-7cm, lamina equal to or slightly shorter than claw, 2.5-3.5 x 2-2.7 cm, claw distinctly winged, 3-3.5 x 0.9-1.2 cm; standards obovate or oblanceolate, 5-6 x 1.3-2.4 cm; style branches 4-4.5 x 0.7-1 cm, with slightly obliquely acute lobes 0.7-1 x 0.3-0.4 cm. Ovary with a slender beak-like apex c. 1.5-2 cm. Capsules oblong, 4-5 cm, with a beak c. 1.5 cm. Fl. 5-7. Damp meadows, salty flats, alluvial plains, 800-1900 m.
N. & N.W. Iran, Caucasus. Ir-Tur. element.
