Iris winkleri
Species of flowering plant
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Iris winkleri, or Winkler iris, is a species in the genus Iris, classified in the subgenus Hermodactyloides and section Monolepsis. It is a bulbous perennial from Turkestan, in Central Asia.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Iridaceae |
| Genus: | Iris |
| Subgenus: | Iris subg. Hermodactyloides |
| Section: | Iris sect. Monolepsis |
| Species: | I. winkleri |
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| Iris winkleri | |
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Description
The iris is deemed to be very similar to Iris kolpakowskiana (also part of the Monolepsis section of the Hermodactyloides subgenus), but it has a brown,[2] membranous covering to the bulb. I. kolpakowskiana (the other member of the section) has a netted covering.[3] Another close relative is I. pskemensis (another snow-melt found iris).[4]
It has 3–4 glabrous (smooth), linear shaped leaves,[5] which are sometimes longer than flowers and stems.[2] They are 1–2 mm wide.[5]
It has a green and acuminate (tapering to a long point) shaped spathes, (leaves of the flower bud).[2]
It has a very very short stem,[5] with the flower, it grows up to 10–20 cm (3.9–7.9 in) tall.[2][5]
It blooms in June,[2] with blueish-violet flowers.[2][5]
Like other irises, it has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'.[6]: 17 The falls are oblanceolate shaped and the standards are erect, oblong shaped and wider than falls.[2]
It has a perianth tube equal to length of the limb,[2][5] and style branches that have oblong lobes.[2]
Taxonomy
It was discovered by botanists in 1884 in Turkestan, and then published by Eduard August von Regel in the Trudy Sankt-Peterburgskogo botanicheskogo sada (Transactions of the St. Petersburg Botanical Garden) between 1884 and 1885, on page 677.[7][8] The plant is named after Konstantin George Alexander Winkler (14 June 1848 - 3 February 1900), a botanist from the University of Tartu in Estonia. Later in 1897, Winkler was made head botanist at Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden.[9]
It was verified by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service on 2 October 2014.[7]
Distribution and habitat
It is native to temperate Asia.[7]
Range
It was originally found in the temperate regions of middle Asia and Kyrgyzstan.[7] It is also found in other former states of the Soviet Union, (including Uzbekistan),[10] and Kazakhstan.[7] Including on the Tian Shan mountain range.[2]
It is normally found at 3,000–4,000 m (9,800–13,100 ft) above sea level.[2]
