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■ (SPEC) Iris pseudopumila Tineo

1827, botanical author Tineo

Iris pseudopumila Tineo. ( Vincenzo Tineo, 1827, Sicily and southern Italy); Section Iris . DB; 4-10" (15-25 cm). Early bloom. Color Code-Y4L; Flowers solitary, purple, violet, white or yellow, or bicolored. Similar to pumila but with stems at least 3 cm long.

See below:
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References:

Tineo in Cat. Hort. Panorm. 283. 1827;
Dammann 1901;
One gleans the following information from Nigel Service's article in The 1994 Iris Year Book, p.94-96. "The type of Iris pseudopumila seems to have come from the area of San Martino di Scale, above and to the west of Palermo in Sicily at about 2,600 ft. (800 meters) altitude." He found the iris there on March 5th, 1988 and, at that height, the buds were not yet even detectable. Snow still lay not far above. Elsewhere though, on the island, He saw it in flower, growing on hillsides at around 750 ft. (230 m.) above sea level.

"In general, I. pseudopumila is characterized as having both a long perianth tube and a considerable stem, as being single flowered and as having evergreen foliage of a length that gives the impression that the flowers are borne among, rather than above, the leaves. The flowers in Sicily are of various colors and shades, yellow, variegata, purple and violet-purple, the latter often dark and with falls so infused with deep tones of bronzy-plum as to quite defeat the colour chart. In the variegata forms the falls seem always to have a narrow but well defined yellow margin. Beards can be yellow, white or blue."

"Of the plants" he "examined the falls measured 5.5 cm-6.8 cm x 2 cm-2.5 cm and the standards 5-7 cm x 2-3 cm, larger than those of the flowers on Malta, smaller though than those on Gozo. But the style arms tended to be longer than either with crests measuring 1.4 cm-1.6 cm long. Filaments and anthers were usually longer."

On Sicily the perianth tube "varied between 5.7 cm and 8.0 cm with an average of 6.6 cm while the ovaries were round-tubular and narrow, obscurely six-grooved, if very narrow then expanding abruptly at the apex into a collar and with an average length of 1.85 cm. The spathes were green, rather membranous at their apices and often somewhat purple marked, particularly on the inner valve, the outer being firmer, narrow, often keeled, with a length of around 6.0 cm-7.2 cm. Stem length here varies between 8 cm and 25 cm and the leaves mat occasionally exceed 30 cm."
"All this was of course the species as I found it at the southerly end of its range. I have not yet seen it on the Italian mainland and the form from Zadar in Croatia is reported to be, morphological at least very distinct."

"Iris pseudopumila has suffered in the past from a reputation of being over leafy and of having a poor flower shape with the falls much rolled inwards, and this view has been perpetuated by some recent authors. This is not entirely deserved, though on maturing the falls do without doubt present themselves badly judged by garden criteria, and the foliage is rather dense.

Also, in cultivation the species is not easy to maintain in good flowering condition, though the leafy plant persists seemingly without difficulty, except that it seems susceptible to northern frosts and wet combined.

It is not easy to find and indeed the true species is probably only periodically in commerce as, when offered, it is frequently not true to name or comes in one of its lessattractive manifestations. It is, though, a gem if found in a good form".
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Synonyms

Iris panormitana Tod.; Lutescens; Iris lutescens Gussone; Iris pumila Bivonia ----

Chromosome counts

n=8, Simonet, 1951; 2n=16, Randolph & Mitra, 1959

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Variations

Iris pseudopumila Tineo.
subsp. pseudopumila
subsp. gozoensis Service Iris pseudopumila cultivars include; 'Gozonensis' 'Malta Form' 'Pseudopumila Randolph's I-43C' PSEUDOPUMILA ZADAR

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Hybrids

Iris pseudopumila crosses; YELLOW HAMMER ----

Distributrion & Cultivation

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-- Main.RPries - 2010-02-08
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