Hyacinthella

Hyacinthella

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H. lazulina v H. heldreichii

The following details the differences between H. lazulina v H. heldreichii using Resimli Türkiye Florası 4a (RTF4a) and Flora of Turkey vols. 8 (heldreichii) & 11 (lazulina) (FOT); details are from RTF4a except where FOT is indicated; note the difference in the reproductive organs, of which the ovary shape is the most obvious and probably also the filament thickness.

H. lazulina and H. heldreichii are closely related and transitionals should be expected. The H. lazulina examples from Antalya city are visually hard to place, being wide-leaved with darkish blue flowers in the open bare positions (making you think of H. heldreichii) and narrow-leaved with lighter blue flowers in the more sheltered positions (making you think of H. lazulina), however the organs within the flower place them as H. lazulina; a lot of them have 3 leaves, and the inflorescences are somewhat dense.

Bulb: 1-2 × 0.8-1 v 0.9-1.5 × 0.7-1.5 cm.

Stems: 1-2 (FOT laz 2 when 2 stems), 8-25 v 5-15 cm, in fruit to 40 v 21 cm, in upper part reddish purplish peppery v purplish, FOT L stem often longer thinner.

Leaves: 2-3 v 2 (FOT spreading-erect to spreading v ?).

Outer leaf: 4-15 × 0.4-1.5 v 3.5-11 × 0.4-1.5 cm (i.e. L slightly narrower).

Inner leaf: 4-10 × 0.3-0.4 v 3.5-10 × 0.2-0.6 cm.

Bracts: small two-lobed v small.

Inflorescence: dense v usually sparse sometimes dense, FOT (5)8-30(40) v (3)10-15(25) flowered.

Pedicel: 0.5-2 mm v to 2.5 (3.5 in fruit) mm, FOT near sessile rarely to 1.5 v usu. 1-2(2.5) mm.

Perianth: bright ocean-blue v dark bluish-purple (FOT brilliant ultramarine blue/intense mid-blue v very dark blue-violet), 4-6 × 1.5-2 v 3-5 × 1.5-2 mm (FOT (3.5)4-5.5 v (4)5-6(6.5) mm), tubular to -urceolate v tubular to -campanulate.

Perianth lobes: to half tube v 1-1.5 mm (FOT ? v c. half tube), mucronate v blunt slightly mucronate (FOT submucronate both), curved inwards v sometimes incurved, ? v apex thickened.

Ovary: ovoid v pear-shaped, 1-1.5 v c. 1-1.2 mm long, ivory v yellow. In the illustrations these are abruptly blunt-topped v tapers upward like a teardrop.

Style: 1.5-1.7 v 1.8-2 mm, stigma apex pointed v punctate.

Filaments: 1-2 v 0.7-0.8 mm. In the illustrations these are rather broad v rather slim.

Anthers: 1-1.1 v 0.5-0.7 mm.

Capsule: 2.5-3 × 1.5-2 v 2.5-3.5 × 2.2-3 mm.

Flowering: February-April v February-May.

Habitat: Under oak trees, open meadows, open stony areas, rocky slopes; 200-1600 m v Limestone cliffs, white earth hills, pine forest clearings, oak thickets; 140-1700 m.

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