(SPEC) Iris kochii Kerner

1887, Botanical author Kerner

'Kochii'. (A. J. Kerner von Marilaun, 1887, Italy). Section Iris. registered in 1939 checklist as an IB-'Kochii'; Early bloom season. Color Code R7D ; "Standards . purple-violet, slightly lighter than falls. Falls fine purple-violet, the whitish half veined thickly with brown-purple; beard bluish white tipped with yellow."-" Distributed on Rocky ground near Trieste and Rovigno."--Cornell Univ. Agri. Exp. Sta. Memoir 100, July 1926. 2n=44. Syn. Iris kochii Kerner ex Stapf.

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