Crocus rifatozdemirii

Corm 10–27 × 11–20 mm in diameter, subglobose to slightly depressed with a flattened base; tunic silky, finely reticular at apex, more or less parallel fibrilled below; tunic neck 13–45 mm, made up of fibers extending from the main tunic; basal rings absent; Cataphylls 4–6, acute, white to cream colored sometimes with a salmon tint, drying to orange or pink, with brown tips. Leaves 6–12, tips usually appearing after, but sometimes during, flowering, glabrous or with short scattered trichomes on margins, keel or underside of arm; up to 2 mm wide; white line on upper surface 0.1 to 0.2 of leaf width; Prophyll present. Bract and bracteole thinly membranous, silvery white, apex acute; subequal or bracteole conspicuously shorter than bract; perigon tube creamy white, sometimes with greenish tint; flowers 1–4; usually white with cream to yellowish base, rarely pale lilac or fading to bluish lilac following anthesis; perianth segments obovate to elliptic, length-to-width ratio of 2.25–4.5 , apex acuminate to mucronate, inner segments 24–45 × 6–18 mm, shorter and narrower than outer 27–49 × 9–19 mm; throat cream colored with sparse trichomes clustered around base of filament; filaments 3–8 mm, white to cream or yellowish, glabrous; anthers 13–17 mm, yellow; connective colorless; style much longer than anthers, rarely almost equal, 20–37 mm long from the base of the filament to the apex, apex slightly expanded, sometimes with small lobes or fringed, white, rarely cream, usually branching from above the tip of the anther, less commonly from the upper half of the anther, into three bright red branches 6– 18 mm in length, branches upright to spreading; capsule and seeds not observed.

Endemic.