Tulipa clusiana

Short description: Species of plant

Lady tulip

'Lady Jane' cultivar
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Monocots
Order:  | Liliales
Family:  | Liliaceae
Subfamily:  | Lilioideae
Tribe:  | Lilieae
Genus:  | Tulipa
Subgenus:  | Tulipa subg. Clusianae
Species:  |

T. clusiana

Binomial name
Tulipa clusiana

Red. Liliac. 1: t. 37 (1803)[1]

Synonyms[2]

Synonymy

* Tulipa praecox Cav.
* Tulipa rubroalba Brot.
* Tulipa stellata Hook.
* Tulipa hispanica Willd. ex Schult. & Schult.f.
* Liriactis albiflora Raf
* Tulipa fernandezii Blatt.
* Tulipa porphyreochrysantha Blatt.
* Tulipa aitchisonii A.D.Hall
* Tulipa hafisii Bornm. & Gauba
* Tulipa chitralensis A.D.Hall
* Tulipa grey-wilsonii Rech.f.
* Tulipa oreophila Rech.f.

Tulipa clusiana, the lady tulip,[3] is an Asian species of tulip native to Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and the western Himalayas. It is widely cultivated as an ornamental and is reportedly naturalized in France , Spain , Portugal, Italy, Tunisia, Greece, and Turkey.[2][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

The plant grows to a height of 6 to 12 in (15 to 30 cm). It flowers during the spring season.[11][12]

The following cultivars have received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. All are relatively small, with narrow pointed tepals, often bi-coloured.

* 'Cynthia'[13] (outsides pink edged pale yellow, insides pale yellow)
* 'Lady Jane'[14] (inners white, outers pink bordered with white)
* 'Peppermintstick'[15] (outers cerise pink with white borders, inners white)
* 'Tinka'[16] (yellow inside, red bordered yellow on the outside)
* var. chrysantha[17] (yellow flowers, flushed red on the outside)

## Gallery

* Flowering plant growing on a rocky ledge

* Flower closeup

* 'Peppermintstick' closing up in the afternoon

* Tulipa clusiana 'Peppermintstick' in the evening

## References

1. ↑ "Tulipa clusiana Redouté | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:542880-1.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
3. ↑ "Tulipa clusiana". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=TUCL. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
4. ↑ Zonneveld, B.J.M. (2009). The systematic value of nuclear genome size for "all" species of Tulipa L. (Liliaceae). Plant Systematics and Evolution 281: 217-245.
5. ↑ Dobignard, D. & Chatelain, C. (2010). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 1: 1-455. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.
6. ↑ Kumar, S. (2012). Herbaceous flora of Jaunsar-Bawar (Uttarakhand), India: enumerations. Phytotaxonomy 12: 33-56.
7. ↑ Dimpoulos, P., Raus, T., Bergmeier, E., Constantinidis, T., Iatrou, G., Kokkini, S., Strid, A., & Tzanoudakis, D. (2013). Vascular plants of Greece. An annotated checklist: 1-372. Botanic gardens and botanical museum Berlin-Dahlem, Berlin and Hellenic botanical society, Athens.
8. ↑ Everett, D. (2013). The genus Tulipa Tulips of the world: 1-380. Kew publishing, Kew.
9. ↑ Christenhusz, M.J.M., Govaerts, R., David, J.C., Hall, T., Borland, K., Roberts, P.S., Tuomisto, A., Buerki, S., Chase, M.W. & Fay, M.F. (2013). Tiptoe through the tulips - cultural history, molecular phylogenetics and classification of Tulipa (Liliaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 172: 280-328.
10. ↑ Eker, I., Babaç, M.T. & Koyuncu, M. (2014). Revision of the genus Tulipa L. (Liliaceae) in Turkey. Phytotaxa 157: 1-112.
11. ↑ Redouté, Pierre Joseph. 1803. Les Liliacees 1:plate 37.
12. ↑ Altervista Flora Italiana, Tulipano di Clusius, Tulipa clusiana DC.
13. ↑ "Tulipa clusiana 'Cynthia'". RHS. https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/96940/Tulipa-clusiana-Cynthia-(15)/Details.
14. ↑ "Tulipa 'Lady Jane'". RHS. https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/194056/Tulipa-Lady-Jane-(15)/Details.
15. ↑ "Tulipa 'Peppermintstick'". RHS. https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/275433/Tulipa-Peppermintstick-(15)/Details.
16. ↑ "Tulipa 'Tinka'". RHS. https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/154270/Tulipa-Tinka-(15)/Details.
17. ↑ "Tulipa clusiana var. chrysantha". RHS. https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/91640/Tulipa-clusiana-var-chrysantha-(15)/Details.

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