Difference: SpecRuthenica (r12 vs. r11)
■ (SPEC) Iris ruthenica Ker-Gawl.
1808, Botanical author Ker-Gawler
Iris ruthenica Ker-Gawl. (John Ker-Gawler, 1808, Transylvania to northern China and Korea); Section Limniris, Series Ruthenicae, Height 2-8" (5-20 cm); Blue;
Curtis's Botanical Magazine tab. 1123. 1808, illustrated in color; and Ker, J. B. (Ker-Gawler), (1811), Iris ruthenica. Pigmy Iris, Curtis's Botanical Magazine, vol. 34, table 1393, 1811.
Tougard 1839; Ware 1877; Van T. 1900; 1938; Van W. 1907; Macoun; Maxwell 1929; 1939; Hocker 1938; Per. 1938; Starker 1938; Fig. 17. Waddick & Zhao, Iris of China, 1992, illustrated in color.
Synonyms Pilgrim Iris; Iris alpina, Pallas ex Roem. & Schult.; Iris brevituba; Iris caespitosa, Pallas; Iris cristata, Somoku Dzusetsu; Ioniris ruthenica, Klatt; Iris de Russie; Iris nana, Maxim. Iris ruthenica, Baker; Iris ruthenica, Tratt.; Iris uniflora, Pallas; Iris uniflora, Regel; Xiphion ruthenicum, Alef.
2n=84, Simonet, 1934; 2n=80, Krogulevich 1978. 2n=84 Doronkin 1984; 2n=84, Malakhova & Markova, 1994; 2n=84, Stepanov & Muratova, 1995.
Iris ruthenica Ker-Gawl
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Curtis's Botanical Magazine tab. 1123. 1808, |
and Ker, J. B. (Ker-Gawler), (1811), Iris ruthenica. Pigmy Iris, Curtis's Botanical Magazine, vol. 34, table 1393, 1811 The publication of the present plant, which can only be considered as a more luxuriant and perfect fpecimen of that already described in No. 1123, was unintentional. We had long wished to procure a drawing of Iris verna for the present work; when Mr. Whitley, of Brompton, kindly informed us that he had numerous specimens of it in bloom, which he said had been raised from American seed; and the present plate was ready for publication, before we had convinced ourselves that the plant represented could not be the one we were in search of, although generally but erroneousiy passing for it. Verna was first inftituted a species by Gronovius in his Flora Virginica, from the dried plant in Clayton's Herbarium, still preserved in Sir Joseph Banks's Museum; from him it has been adopted by Linnaeus and subsequent authors; whose details however afford but little aslistance in discriminating it from the present species. But a reference to the prototype in the above herbarium, (showed us that verna was either a mere variety of cristata (No. 412.) with narrower leaves and smaller flower; or if specifically distinct far nearer akin to that than the present species, from which it differs by a sessile flower having a long filiform tube equal to or longer than the limb and about even with its long narrow spathe. Since the first adoption by authors of verna into their systems, the figure from Plukenet's work has been uniformly repeated by them as its synonym ; now this figure any attentive observer will soon find to belong to cristata; of which it is a diminished but very characteristic representation; where the circular ramenta of its creeping rootstock and long intervals between the fascicles, as well as the cuneately oblong laminae, and their divaricately patent ungues of the outer segments of the corolla are accurately defined. The omission of all mention of the three singular crested lines in the corolla of cristata ( subsequently taken up as a species from the living plant in the first edition of Hortus Kewensis), when we know that verna was descnbed from a dried specimen in which they are obliterated or nearly so, makes nothing against our suppofition of the identity of the two plants. We have seen cristata with leaves full as narrow as those of the plant in Clayton's Herbarium. Michaux enumerates both as distinct species; but his description of verna, like those of his predecessors, is rendered useless by its vagueness. If we could suppose that there was no mistake in Mr. Whitley's account of the quarter from which the seeds of the present plant had been received, we might from the habitat guess that Michaux's verna was meant for our plant. But we believe that there is an error in this account; and that ruthenica is of Russian origin alone and not of both Russian and Virginian, But of this we do not pretend to be positive ; although we are so that it is not the verna of Gronovius, Linnaeus, or Miller. In Hortus Kewensis the cultivation of verna in our gardens was most probably recorded solely on the authority of Miller, as was that of so many other plants in that work; and this is the more probable since there is no specimen of it from those gardens to be found in the Banksian Herbarium. To this circumstance we strongly suspect we owe the formation of cristata and verna into distinct species. Ruthenica thrives well in the open border, where it flowers in April and May ; the corolla has the scent as well as colour of the Violet; for further account fee No. 1123.-- G.(John Gawler) |
| Fig. 17. Waddick & Zhao, Iris of China, 1992, illustrated in color. |
| Tougard 1839; Ware 1877; Van T. 1900; 1938; Van W. 1907; |
Dykes the Genus Iris, 1913 |
| Macoun; Maxwell 1929; 1939; Hocker 1938; Per. 1938; Starker 1938; |
Synonyms
Pilgrim Iris; Iris alpina, Pallas ex Roem. & Schult.; Iris brevituba; Iris caespitosa, Pallas; Iris cristata, Somoku Dzusetsu; Ioniris ruthenica, Klatt; Iris de Russie; Iris nana, Maxim. Iris ruthenica, Baker; Iris ruthenica, Tratt.; Iris uniflora, Pallas; Iris uniflora, Regel; Xiphion ruthenicum, Alef. ----
2n=84, Simonet, 1934; 2n=80, Krogulevich 1978. 2n=84 Doronkin 1984; 2n=84, Malakhova & Markova, 1994; 2n=84, Stepanov & Muratova, 1995. ----
Variations
Iris ruthenica Ker-Gawl
- forma leucantha Zhao
- var. brevituba Maxim
- var. latifolia Kit.
- var. nana, Maxim.
Iris ruthenica has the following cultivars;
- 'Brevituba'
- GAMLIN BLUE
- 'Red Form'
- 'Ruthenica Dykesii',
- 'Ruthenica Nana'.
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Hybrids
non recorded ----
Distribution & Cultivation
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| jpg | Iris-ruthenica-10.jpg | manage | 69 K | 18 Jul 2016 - 15:47 | BobPries | Ken Walker photo |
| jpg | Iris-ruthenica-2.jpg | manage | 30 K | 18 Jul 2016 - 15:45 | BobPries | Ken Walker photo |
| jpg | Iris-ruthenica-3.jpg | manage | 14 K | 18 Jul 2016 - 15:45 | BobPries | Ken Walker photo |
| jpg | Iris-ruthenica-4.jpg | manage | 40 K | 18 Jul 2016 - 15:46 | BobPries | Ken Walker photo |
| jpg | Iris-ruthenica-5.jpg | manage | 69 K | 18 Jul 2016 - 15:49 | BobPries | Edmundas Kondratas |
| jpg | Iris-ruthenica-6.jpg | manage | 41 K | 18 Jul 2016 - 15:46 | BobPries | Ken Walker photo |
| jpg | Iris-ruthenica-7.jpg | manage | 109 K | 18 Jul 2016 - 15:50 | BobPries | Edmundas Kondratas photo |
| jpg | RedForm01.jpg | manage | 109 K | 28 Apr 2015 - 03:21 | Main.TLaurin | Photo by Joe Pye Weed's Garden-red form |
| jpg | Ruthenica373.jpg | manage | 67 K | 20 Jan 2012 - 01:05 | UnknownUser | NARGS Seed 2012 #1566 cv Gustav Namesnig Pries photo |
| jpg | Ruthenica_2nd374.jpg | manage | 34 K | 20 Jan 2012 - 01:06 | UnknownUser | Pries photo enlarged |
| jpg | Ruthenica_from_Dykes_Genus_Iris.jpg | manage | 34 K | 20 Apr 2010 - 13:11 | UnknownUser | Ruthenica from Dykes Genus Iris |
| jpg | ruthanica01.jpg | manage | 61 K | 17 Jul 2015 - 13:57 | Main.TLaurin | Photo by Barry Blyth-Australia |
| jpg | ruthanica02.jpg | manage | 94 K | 17 Jul 2015 - 13:59 | Main.TLaurin | Photo by Barry Blyth-Australia |
| jpg | ruthenica4.jpg | manage | 80 K | 10 Jan 2014 - 15:41 | Main.TLaurin | Photo by Darius Gusas-Lithuania |
| jpg | ruthenica5.jpg | manage | 97 K | 10 Jan 2014 - 15:46 | Main.TLaurin | Photo by Darius Gusas-Lithuania |
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