Moraea sisyrinchium
Moraea sisyrinchium
Keklikçiğdemi
Syn: Gynandriris sisyrinchium
Corm 10-30 x 10-26 mm, globose, outer tunic dark, fibrous. Stem 5-30 cm. Leaves 2, with long sheathing basal portion, free lamina linear, 10-38 cm x 2-7 mm, ±straight to flexuous and arcuate-ascending. Spathes scarious at flowering time, inner one 35-70 mm, outer slightly shorter. Flowers each lasting only a few hours, in 1-2 cymes of 1-3 flowers. Falls lavender blue, mauve or violet with white or yellow signal patch, 20-35 x 4-1 0 mm, linib 0 bovate-elliptic, spreading. Standards erect, shorter and narrower than falls; limb lanceolate, narrowing into slender, channelled claw. Filaments 4-14 mm; anthers 6-10 mm. Style branches suberect, 8-20 mm, deeply 2-fid. Beak of ovary very slender, 20-30 mm. Capsule c. 20 mm. Seeds angular-pyriform, c. 1.5 mm, blackish-brown. Fl. 2-5. Pinus brutia forest, limestone hills, macchie, mud flats, s.1. -1400 m.
Mediterranean area, S.W. Asia.
