''Colchicum szovitsii'' subsp. ''brachyphyllum'',
synonym ''Colchicum brachyphyllum'', is a subspecies of ''
Colchicum szovitsii''.
Nomenclature
The subspecies name ''hrachyphyllum'' is formed from the Greek ''brakhus'', short, and ''phullon'' leaf.
Characteristics
It is a perennial. Its corm is oval and 1–2 cm long. Its leaves are short at flowering time, eventually reaching 12 cm long over 2.5–3 cm wide, slightly
undulate
Undulation may refer to:
* Lateral undulation, the most primitive of vertebrate locomotor patterns
* Undulation of the geoid, the separation between the geoid and the reference ellipsoid of the Earth
* Undulation point, a point on a curve where t ...
. Its flowers are numerous, white, pinkish white, or regular pink; tube rather thick. Its
tepal
A tepal is one of the outer parts of a flower (collectively the perianth). The term is used when these parts cannot easily be classified as either sepals or petals. This may be because the parts of the perianth are undifferentiated (i.e. of very ...
s are elliptico-lanceolate, lengthily tapered at base, more briefly at the apex, 2–3 cm long, 3–6 mm wide. Its stamens have brown
anthers and
filaments thickened at the base.
Seasonality
The plant flowers from January to June.
Range and habitat
The plant grows in
Syria,
Lebanon
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, and
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...
. It grows abundantly near the melting snow of the middle and upper mountains of the
Beqaa Valley.
References
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szovitsii subsp. brachyphyllum
Flora of Lebanon and Syria
Flora of Turkey
Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier
Taxa named by Heinrich Carl Haussknecht
Plants described in 1882