Muscari species

Eker, İsmail, 2019, Muscari fatmacereniae (Asparagaceae, Scilloideae), a new species from southern Anatolia, Phytotaxa 397 (1), pp. 99-106 : 105

Key to closely related Muscari species in Turkey:

1. Fertile flowers ovoid to obovoid-urceolate, 3 – 5.5 mm long; leaves 0.l – 0.6(– 1) cm broad, linear to narrowly linear-lanceolate (rarely linear-elliptic)..........................................................................................................................................................................2

- Fertile flowers globose, 2.5–4(–5) mm long; leaves 0.5 – 1.5 cm broad, linear-oblanceolate or rarely linear.............. M. botryoides

2. Fertile flowers 3.5 – 5.5 × 2 – 3 mm, not shouldered and slightly constricted, orifice wider (more than 1 mm); outer tunics light brown to brown; leaves (2 –)3 – 6(– 7) per scape, loose and slanted, canaliculate; raceme dense............................... M. armeniacum

- Fertile flowers 3 – 4 × 1.5 – 2 mm, shouldered and strongly constricted, orifice narrower (less than 1 mm); outer tunics blackish-brown; leaves 2–4 per scape, erect and flattened to slightly involute; raceme lax ................................................. M. fatmacereniae