Gemicia vardariana
Gemicia vardariana
Taçlısümbül
Syn: Scilla vardaria
Bulbs 21–30 × 10–18 mm, ovoid to subglobose; outer tunic membranaceous, very thin textured, pale brown, sometimes pink-hued; inner scales fleshy, pink-hued. Leaves usually 2, rarely 3, 11–19 × 0.8–1.7 cm, dark green to yellow-green, linear, canaliculate, cucullate at apex. Stem solitary, 4–9 cm long, erect, stout. Inflorescence a simple, lax 2–9 flowered raceme, axis erect, brown to light green, sometimes tinged bronze, 3–7 cm long, . Bracts 1–2 mm long, lanceolate to ovate, sometimes linear, membranaceous, white to purple-hued, sometimes absent. Pedicels 1–6 cm long, erect to suberect, sometimes curved downwards, slender. Perigon uniformly pale violet-blue, broadly campanulate to stellate with lobes 10–15 × 4–5 mm, subequal, oblong-lanceolate, united in lower 1/4– 1/5; tube 1.5–3 × 2–3 mm, subcampanulate to infundibular, originating from both floral corona and perianth, white at base. Floral corona 2.5–3.5 × 3–3.5 mm, conical, pale blue to white, sometimes pale blue at apex only, apex margin very minutely irregularly toothed or entire, formed by the fusion of the filaments. Anthers inserted at the floral corona apex; light to pale yellowish, 2–4 × 1–1.5 mm, dorsifixed, introrse; filaments reduced. Ovary 2–3 × 2–3 mm, dark blue, subglobose or obovoid, 3-1ocular, ovules 4–5 per locule; style 1–1.5 mm long; stigma small, truncate. Capsule 4–6 × 6–8 mm, pyriform, 3-lobed, pale greenish. Seeds 1.5–2 mm broad, 4–12 in each capsule, ovoid to ellipsoid, with an elaiosome; testa pale yellow, reticulate; elaiosome pale cream yellow, cucullate, adherent to testa, slightly tuberculate.
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