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Tulipa intermedia sp. nov. (Liliaceae) from the Ferghana Depression, Uzbekistan
Author(s) -
Tojibaev K. S.,
de Groot J. J.,
Naralieva N. M.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
nordic journal of botany
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.333
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1756-1051
pISSN - 0107-055X
DOI - 10.1111/njb.00374
Subject(s) - biology , botany , petal , intermedia , liliaceae , bulb , art , performance art , art history
A new species, Tulipa intermedia , collected in the Ferghana Depression is described. The new species belongs to section T . sect. Kolpakowskianae Raamsd. ex Zonn. & Veldkamp. It is similar to T. scharipovii Tojibaev and T. talassica Lazkov but is distinguished by morphological characters of bulbs and flowers and by its ecology, growing only in Artemisia steppe on plains and in low foothills with gravelly slopes. From T. scharipovii , the new species differs by non‐coriaceous and strongly prolongated bulb tunics, pubescence of tunics, shorter stem, shape of outer petals and filaments, and by its pale yellow (not green) bottle‐shaped ovary. Two varieties of T. intermedia differing in the colour of tepals and filaments were observed growing together and are formally described.