taxonID	type	description	language	source
03EA8120FFECFF85FF36FDCFEA63E171.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — (lectotype designated by Wendelbo 1990) IRAN. In Monte Kuh-Sefid, 2 May 1903, TH. Strauss (B: B 100088594, Digital image!; isotype B 100088594, Digital image!; JE: JE 00022479, Digital image!; LE: LE 00010938, Digital image!). = Bellevalia shiraziana Parsa (1949: 34), syn. nov. Type: — (lectotype, designated by Wendelbo 1990): IRAN. Desht-arjin, near Schiraz, 2400 – 1800 m., 20 – 22 May 1885, O. Stapf (K: K 000098296, Digital image!).	en	Abdollahi, Mohammad Reza, Bӧhnert, Tim, Weigend, Maximilian, Zarre, Shahin (2025): Insights from morphological investigations and molecular phylogenetics reveal a new synonymy in Bellevalia (Asparagaceae: Scilloideae) in Iran. Phytotaxa 698 (3): 155-164, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.698.3.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.698.3.2
03EA8120FFECFF85FF36FDCFEA63E171.taxon	description	Description: — Geophytic, bulbous plants. Bulbs 1 – 3 cm diam., ovoid, tunic greyish brown to dark brown. Leaves 3 – 6, overtopping the scape, outer ones 7 – 23 × 4 – 8 cm, narrowly linear to linear-lanceolate, lanceolate or rarely to oblanceolate-obovate, canaliculate, eciliate at margins. Scape single or rarely 2 per bulb, (2 – 3 –) 6 – 12 cm long, elongating in fruit. Raceme densely 6 – 25 - flowered, up to 2 cm diam. when flowering, elongating in fruit. Pedicel 0.5 – 2.5 mm long elongating up to 5 mm in fruit, ascending, thickened. Flower buds pale brownish to olive green. Perianth pale blue, becoming brownish when dried, 6.5 – 10 (– 12) mm long, tubular-campanulate; lobes actinomorphic with all lobes equal or sub-zygomorphic with one exterior lobe being larger than the others, 1 / 2 – 1 / 3 as long as the tube, rounded at the apex. Filaments c. 1.5 – 2 mm long, triangular-subulate, flattened, connate at base; anthers violet, ca. 1.5 mm long. Capsules distinctly tri-lobed, acute first, becoming emarginate when mature; valves 10 – 13 × 10 – 16 mm, broadly ovate to broadly elliptic. Seeds brown to dark brown or black, rounded to broadly elliptic, 2 – 2.5 mm diam. Additional specimens examined: — IRAN. Prov. Kermanshah: Kuh-Parrou (Parrow), 1700 – 2100 m, 7 May 1975, P. Wendelbo & M. Assadii 16724 (TARI); Kinischt, 27 April 1903, Th. Strauss (JE: JE 00020121, Digital image!); Kuh Sefid, 12 March 1903, Th. Strauss (JE: JE 00022479, Digital image!); Kuh-Sefid ditionis Kermandschahan, 2 May 1903, J. Bornmüller (B: B 100088595, Digital image!); Prov. Fars: kuh Charmakan (Cheramakan), SW Shiraz, 3000 m, O. Stapf (K: K 000802731, Digital image!); Marvdasht, Ramjerd, Chamani, Ayub Mt, 30 ° 03 ′ 10 ″ N, 52 ° 39 ′ 07 ″ E, 1700 – 1850 m, 18 March 2019, A. Zeraatkar 86288 (TARI); Marvdasht, Dorodzan, sinoptic station Zaneh Mt., 30 ° 10 ′ 40 ″ N, 52 ° 27 ′ 40 ″ E, 1850 – 1900 m, 27 March 2019, A. Zeraatkar 86284 (TARI); Marvdasht, Dorodzan, sinoptic station Zaneh Mt., 30 ° 10 ′ 40 ″ N, 52 ° 27 ′ 40 ″ E, 1850 – 1900 m, 30 May 2019, A. Zeraatkar 86285 (TARI); Marvdasht, distr. Ramjerd, Kuh-e Ayyub, south of Ayyub-e Nabi shrine, 30.0512 ° N, 52.6444 ° E, 1725 - 1981 m, 24 April 2023, S. Zarre & M. R. Abdollahi 47861 (TUH); Bavanat, Mazayejan, on the road to Pirkadooieh area, near Aqa-Hosseini Mountain, 30.3042 ° N, 53.7538 ° E, 2805 – 2900 m, 22 April 2023, S. Zarre & M. R. Abdollahi 47842 (TUH). IRAQ. Pira Magrun above Sulaimaniya, 2438 m, 27 April 1958, O. Polunin 5152 (K: K 002924600, Digital image!); MRO, Chiya-i Marmarut, 19 April 1932, E. Guest 2066 (K: K 002924598, Digital image!); MSU, Sulaimaniya, Graham 651 (K: K 002924599, Digital image!).	en	Abdollahi, Mohammad Reza, Bӧhnert, Tim, Weigend, Maximilian, Zarre, Shahin (2025): Insights from morphological investigations and molecular phylogenetics reveal a new synonymy in Bellevalia (Asparagaceae: Scilloideae) in Iran. Phytotaxa 698 (3): 155-164, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.698.3.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.698.3.2
