Iris aphylla
Iris aphylla
Taş süseni
Plant leafless in winter. Stems 15-30 cm, slender, branched usually below the middle and often from the base. Leaves 15-40 cm Χ 6-22 mm, the lower usually falcate. Flowers 3-5, violet to purple; pedicels very short; spathes 30-60 mm, ovate to oblong, herbaceous, often purplish at apex. Hypanthial tube 14-22 mm. Falls 40-65 Χ 20-25 mm, narrowly obovate. Standards 40-65 Χ 22-30 mm, with broadly elliptical limb and short claw. Seeds globose to pyriform, rugose, dark reddish-brown. 2n = 24, 40, 48.
E.C. Europe and S. half of U.S.S.R.
