Iris revoluta
| Iris revoluta | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Iridaceae |
| Subfamily: | Iridoideae |
| Tribe: | Irideae |
| Genus: | Iris |
| Subgenus: | Iris |
| Species: | Iris revoluta |
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Iris revoluta |
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Iris revoluta is a species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus of Iris. It is a rhizomatous perennial, from a small area in Salento, Italy. It has (sword-shaped) or falcate (sickle-shaped) glaucous leaves, tall slender stem with several short branches and 2-4 fragrant flowers in dark violet, purple, violet and pale violet. It is rarely cultivated as an ornamental plant in temperate regions.
It has horizontal, thick and knotted rhizomes.
The ensiform (sword-shaped) or falcate (sickle-shaped) leaves can grow up to between 30–40 cm (12–16 in) long, and between 3 cm wide. They are green-yellow, or glaucous,
It has a sub-cylindrical, slender stem, or peduncle, that can grow up to between 65–70 cm (26–28 in) tall. The stem and flowers are taller than the leaves. It has several, short and weak branches, (or pedicels).
The stem has 2-4, green, long, inflated, spathes (leaves of the flower bud), that are 5–6 cm (2–2 in) long, and (scarious) or membranous at the ends. The flowers appear after each spathe or bract.
The stems (and the many branches) hold between 2-4 flowers, usually 1-2 per branch, in late March.
The scented flowers, come in shades of violet, from dark violet, purple, violet, and pale violet. Like other irises, it has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The velvet-like falls, are obovate, and recurved, revolute (or folded). They can reach 7.6–7.8 cm (3–3 in) long and 4 - 4.8 wide. In the middle of the falls, is a row of short hairs called the 'beard', which is white, or pale violet and has a yellow tip. The paler standards, are elliptical and narrow at the base, reaching 7.8 cm (3 in) long and 4 cm wide.
The 3 style arms are 3 cm long. The perianth tube is funnel shaped, have violet stripes and around 3.8 cm long. It has a 1.2 cm long filament,1.5 cm long anther and a 2 cm long and oblong-subtrigonal shaped ovary.
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