Difference: SpecFilifolia (r8 vs. r7)

■ (SPEC) Iris filifolia Boiss.

1839, Bossier

Iris filifolia Bossier (Edmond Boissier, 1839-45, Spain, North Africa and Rock of Gibraltar); Subgenus Xiphium . height 10-16" (25-40 cm);

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Boissier, E.P., Voyage botanique dans le midi d’Espagne, vol. 1: t. 170 (1839-1845) [J.C. Heyland]
as Xiphion filifolium, Hook. Fil. in Curtis's Botanical Magazine table 5928; where Hooker gives the following description; "Now that the cultivation of hardy herbaceous plants is coming prominently into vogue, many beautiful novelties will be annually added to our beds, borders, and frames, for many years to come, and amongst them few are more desirable than the species of Iris and Xiphion, because of their facility of treatment, their rapid multiplication, varieties of gorgeous coloring, and comparatively early season of flowering.The species of Xiphion inhabit, for the most part, dry exposed places in the Mediterranean region, flowering from March to May, a month or two before they arrive at perfection in this country. X. filifolium is a native of Southern Spain, where it was discovered by Boissier, in sandy calcareous rocks on the Sierra Bermeja, at an elevation of 3,000 to 4,000 feet (French); it probably also inhabits Marocco, where the magnificent X. tangitanum grows, a much larger plant, with darker more maroon-colored flowers. Flowering specimens of this latter gorgeous plant were given me at Tangiers by Sir J. Drummond Hay, apropos of which Miss Hay informed me that a similar smaller flowered kind grew in the vicinity of Tangiers, which most probably is X. filifolium.The specimen of X. filifolium here figured was brought by Mr. Maw from the rock of Gibralter in 1869, and flowered in Benthal Gardens in July of the present year. In Gibraltar it flowers in April.*Descr.* Bulb from the size of a hazel nut to a walnut, with a brown fibrous coat. Stem slender, one to two feet high, terete, leafy. Leaves sometimes twice as long as the stem, glabrous, filiform, flexuous, convolute, keeled, dilated at the base into a slender sheath. Spathes two to three inches long, compressed, narrow lanceolate, acuminate, green, pale brown when dry, deeply striated, margins and tip broadly membranous. Flowers one, rarely two, of fine violet purple, one and a half to two and a half inches in diameter; tube of perianth slender, half an inch long, enclosed in the spathes; segments about twice as long as the tube; outer with a narrow claw, which rather suddenly expands into a reflexed orbicular obovate lamina, that bears on its disk a golden-yellow truncate stripe bordered with blue; inner segments obovate-lanceolate, erose above the middle, tip notched. Stigmas deeply two-lobed; lobes lanceolate, acute, erose. Capsule one to one and a half inches long, linear, trigonous, acute at both ends."
A.M., R.H.S. 1915, shown by Dykes; Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society 41: 2, cxxv. Dec. 1915;
Krelage 1892; Van T. 1909; 1911;
Dykes, The Genus Iris 218. tab. 44. 1913,

Synonyms: Iris praecox; Xiphion filifolium, Klatt; Xiphion tingitanum, Hooker. 2n=32, Pérez & Pastor, 1994.

Iris filifolia cultivars: 'A. Bloemaard', 'Filifolia', 'Filifolia Alba', 'Filifolia Elizabeth', 'Filifolia Imperator', 'Filifolia Praecox', 'Latifolia', 'Queen Of Gazelles', 'Rex'.

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