Iris sintenisii


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Read about Iris sintenisii in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Iris sintenisii, Janka (I. graminea var. sintenisii, Riehter. I. urumovi, Velenovski). Lvs. narrow, linear, acuminate, 8-18 in. long, ¼ - ½ in. broad: st. round, not flattened as in I. graminea, slender and flexuous, 4-12 in. long, almost entirely clothed by 2-3 reduced lvs. and bearing a single head of 2 fls.: spathe-valves narrow, linear, acuminate, keeled, the inner longer than the outer: ovary tapering to a long neck taking the place of the perianth-tube: fls. bright lilac, 1 ½ in. long; outer segms. with an obovate blade and a slightly pandurate claw, bluish purple, whitish toward the throat, marked with purple veins and with reddish purple veins on the claw; inner segms. oblanceolate with a cuneate claw deep blue-purple; style-crests lanceolate. S. Italy, Balkan Peninsula, Asia Minor and Turkey.


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