Tulipa systola

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

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1. ^ Denkschr. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss., Wien. Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. 50: 17 (1885)
2. ^ a b "Tulipa systola Stapf". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
3. ^ "Tulipa systola (15)". The Royal Horticultural Society. 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. JSTOR 2389491.

Taxon identifiers

Tulipa systola|

* Wikidata: Q15546672
* Wikispecies: Tulipa systola
* BOLD: 601927
* CoL: 59L6M
* EoL: 1083013
* FoIO: TULSYS
* GBIF: 5299501
* iNaturalist: 495971
* IPNI: 543110-1
* NCBI: 297470
* Open Tree of Life: 575515
* Plant List: kew-290015
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:543110-1
* Tropicos: 18400386
* WoI: 117
* WFO: wfo-0000746750