Tulipa systola

Short description: Species of plant in the genus Tulipa

Tulipa systola

Flowering in the Negev, Israel
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Monocots
Order:  | Liliales
Family:  | Liliaceae
Subfamily:  | Lilioideae
Tribe:  | Lilieae
Genus:  | Tulipa
Species:  |

T. systola

Binomial name
Tulipa systola

Stapf[1]

Synonyms[2]

List

*     * Tulipa cuspidata Stapf
* Tulipa florenskyi Woronow
* Tulipa levieri Sprenger
* Tulipa stapfii Turrill
* Tulipa straussii Bornm.
* Tulipa sultanabadensis Sprenger

Tulipa systola, the desert tulip, is a species of tulip native to the Middle East; Sinai, the Levant, Anatolia, Iraq and Iran.[2][3] A geophyte adapted to arid conditions, it can remain dormant or produce only leaves in bad years based on environmental cues.[4]

## References

1. ↑ Denkschr. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss., Wien. Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. 50: 17 (1885)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Tulipa systola Stapf". Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:542931-1.
3. ↑ "Tulipa systola (15)". The Royal Horticultural Society. https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/165056/i-Tulipa-systola-i-(15)/Details. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
4. ↑ Boeken, B. (1991). "Above-Ground Emergence in the Desert Tulip Tulipa systola Otto Stapf (botanist)|Stapf In the Negev Desert of Israel". Functional Ecology 5 (5): 705–712. doi:10.2307/2389491.

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