(SPEC) Iris lurida Solander
1789, Solander
Iris lurida (
Daniel Solander, 1789) IB, Midseason bloom. Color Code-S9D; Curtis's Botanical Magazine offered the following description with the plate to the right;
"Root fleshy, horizontal; Herb cespitose; leaves shorter than stem, which is from a foot to a foot and half high, subcompressedly round with about three branches issuing from herbaceous two-valved bracts, which are sometimes longer than the branches and give the involucre the appearance of being four-valved. Involucres herbaceous, rather inflated, about equal to the tube with a purplish sphacelate edge, terminal one to two flowered with a middle one-valved spathe, the rest generally one flowered. Tube about equal to the outer laminae, of a yellowish green; ungues turbinately patent, rather distant, convolute, of a livid yellow with purplish blotches; inner ones nearly twice the shortest and narrowest; outer laminae revolutely deflected, narrowest, and rather longest, oblong oval, rather convex, dark dingy purple with whitish streaks in the middle of its base, inner round-obovate, connivent-erect, subundulate, subpellucid, purplish; cilias deep yellow with purple brown tips; stigmas erect-patent, linear-oblong, lividly tallow, keel and both lips purplish; Segments of inner lip revolute, acute; outer quite entire and purple. Anthers purplish, shorter than the white filaments. Germ sub-sessile trigonal-oblong, six-sulcate, and nearly three times shorter than the tube. Flowers early in May; its bloom is sweetish, and not entirely scentless, as described in Hort. Kew. Where it is suspected to be a variety of Iris sambucina; native of the southern parts of Europe; cultivated by Miller in 1758. Our specimen had a rather larger-flower, and its laminae were rather more undulate than usual. The drawing was taken at the Nursery of Messrs. Grimwood and Wykes, Kensington."
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LaurieFrazer - 2010-01-17