Tulipa lanata Regel

Tojibaev, Komiljon, Dekhkonov, Davron, Ergashov, Ibrokhimjon, Sun, Hang, Deng, Tao & Yusupov, Ziyoviddin, 2022, The synopsis of the genus Tulipa (Liliaceae) in Uzbekistan, Phytotaxa 573 (2), pp. 163-214 : 168-169

1.3. Tulipa lanata Regel in Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 8: 647, t. 4. (1884).

Type:— TAJIKISTAN. Pamir-Alai, distr. Hissar, Chodscha-Balkata ad fluvium Kafirnigan, A. Regel s.n. (holotype LE!; isotypes K-000844618, P00730910) .

Description:—Bulb ovoid, 2–4 cm thick; tunic thinly subcoriaceous, reddish-brown or light brown, inside profusely lanate, especially in the upper part; stem up to 40–50(60) cm long, pale green, the upper part of stem and peduncle pubescent; leaves commonly 4, deflexed, scattered, undulate, glaucescent, more or less pubescent, ciliate, not exceeding the flower; basal leaf lanceolate, 3–6 cm broad; upper leaves progressively decreasing in size; flower solitary, widely cup-shaped; perigone segments red, 5–8 cm long, more or less acuminate to a pubescent tip; the basal blotch oblong, reaching one-third of the length of tepal, obtuse or sinuate (rarely acute), black with pale yellow margin; outer segments rhomboidal to oblong-rhomboidal, slightly broader than the oblong-obovate inner segments; stamens one-third to twofifths the length of perigone; filaments glabrous, black, triangular in section; anthers commonly yellow, twice the length of filaments; pollen yellow or reddish purple; ovary slightly shorter than stamens, with sessile stigma; capsule 2 cm broad, 5 cm long.

General distribution:—Southern Pamir-Alay ( Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan), Pakistan (northern part), Western Himalayas.

Distribution in Uzbekistan:—I-6 Western Hissar district (I-6-c Baysun region; I-6-d Kuhitang region), I-7 Hissar-Darvaz district (I-7-a Sangardak-Tupalang region), I-8 Panj district (I-8-a Babatag region).

Phenology:—Flowering: April; fruiting: May.

Ecology:—Clayey, stony and variegated slopes in foothills, lower and middle mountain zone, 600–2500(2800) m a.s.l.

Etymology:—The Latin word “ lanatus ” means “ woolly ”.

Note:—The beginning of the history of T. lanata in Europe has been described in detail by Wilford (2006), «This species was featured in Curtis`s Botanical Magazine in 1928, where O. Stapf (1857–1933), who was Austrian botanist, from 1909 to 1922 was the keeper of the Herbarium at the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, wrote that in 1901 C.G. van Tubergen employed a collector, P. Graeber, to bring back various bulbs and tubers from the Bukhara region in Uzbekistan. According to Stapf, from those and later collections T. lanata came into general cultivation but under different names, including T. tubergeniana , T. hoogiana Fedtschenko (1910: 53) , T. ingens and T. fosteriana Irving (1906: 322) , and he considered them all to be strains of the same species». T. lanata came to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, from Kashmir in 1925. These had originally been collected from the roof of a mosque that collapsed during a flood in 1905. According to Pavord (1999), T. lanata probably has been introduced into Kashmir from Central Asia by the Moguls in the 16th Century and has been planted mostly on the roofs of mosques ( Fig. 2C ).

Specimens examined:— UZBEKISTAN: Baysun region : Hissar Range: between Baysun and Denau, KhodzhaIpak, among wheat crops, 20 May 1930, Botschantzev & Vvedensky 297 ( TASH!) ; Khodzha-Ipak , 14 April 1935, Botschantzev 59 ( TASH!) ; Mts. Ketmen-Chapty , stony slope, 2500, 10 June 1935, Gordienko 141 ( MW) ; Baysun Mts. , Ketmen-Chapty, stony slope, 2600 m, 19 June 1935, Gordienko 235 ( MW) ; Baysuntau , surroundings of the village Avlod, June 1967, Dzhumaev s.n. ( TASH!) ; Baysuntau , surroundings of the village Avlod, 5 June 1971, Dzhumaev s.n. ( TASH!) ; 10–12 km to the north from the town Baysun , Zavboshi , 11 April 2019, Maltzev 11 (( TASH!): Kuhitang region : Kuhitang Range : Sayrob, Suvsiz mountauins, 28 April 1964, Khalikov s.n. ( TASH!) ; South-western Hissar , Kuhitang Range , Kampyrtepa area, Machaylysay, 25 April 2007, Ibragimov 0182 ( TASH!) ; Surkhan state reserve, Kampirtepa, 18 April 2008, K. Tojibaev s.n. ( TASH!) : Hissar-Darvaz district , Sangardak-Tupalang region: Hissar Range, loessial slopes between Oyborik and Sina, 23 April 1928, Vvedensky 213 ( TASH!) ; ca. 35 km NW of the town Denau , 5–10 km above the village Sina , eastern slope of Mts. Chulbair, upper reaches of the river Obidara, alt. ca. 1800–2300 m, 18–19 June 1979, Rusanowicz ( MW) ; Panj district , Babatag region , Babatag Range, Khodzha-Kulsin, rocky slopes, 27 April 1940, Bukasov 106 ( TASH!) ; Surkhandarya Province , Shurchi district , sovkhoz Gagarin, foothills of Babatag, 1500 m, 23 April 1964, Savitsky s.n. ( TASH!) .

Figures

FIGURE 2. Species of Tulipa sect. Lanatae: A. T. tubergeniana, B. T. bactriana, C. T. lanata. Scale bars, 1 cm.