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Tulipa cinnabarina

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Description

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Family Liliaceae

Herbs perennial , with a rhizome, bulb, or corm, rarely shrubby or treelike. Leaves basal and/or cauline, alternate, opposite, or whorled , parallel or rarely reticulate veined. Inflorescence a raceme , panicle, spike, umbel, reduced panicle, or other, or flowers solitary. Flowers bisexual , rarely unisexual , actinomorphic , rarely zygomorphic; bracts present or absent; bracteoles present or absent. Perianth usually corollalike, 6-merous, rarely 4- or 8-merous, in 2 whorls; segments free (tepals) or united . Stamens 6, rarely 3, 4, or 8, inserted opposite perianth segments; filaments free or adnate to perianth, rarely connate into a corona ; anthers usually 2-loculed, basifixed or dorsifixed and versatile, introrse , latrorse , or extrorse , dehiscing usually by vertical slits. Carpels usually connate for most or all of their length , rarely only at base ; ovary superior, rarely semi-inferior, 3-loculed, rarely 2- or 4-loculed, with axile placentae, or rarely 1-loculed with a parietal placenta; ovules usually anatropous . Nectaries septal, perigonal, or absent. Fruit a capsule or berry. Seeds with abundant endosperm and small embryo.

About 250 genera and 3500 species: worldwide, especially in temperate and subtropical regions; 57 genera (three endemic, two introduced ) and 726 species (379 endemic, 11 introduced) in China.[1]

Genus Tulipa

Herbs, perennial , scapose or subscapose , bulbose ; bulbs often stoloniferous , tunicate , papery to coriaceous ; tunics variously hairy or glabrous adaxially. Leaves 2-6(-12), cauline, alternate, reduced distally; blade linear to oblong , somewhat fleshy . Inflorescences 1(-4) -flowered, bracts usually absent. Flowers: perianth campanulate to cup-shaped; tepals caducous , 6, distinct , often blotched near base , petaloid , ± equal; nectaries absent; stamens 6, distinct; filaments shorter than tepals, basally dilated ; anthers basifixed , linear to narrowly elliptic , introrse ; ovary superior, 3-locular; style very short or absent; stigma prominently 3-lobed. Fruits capsular , ellipsoid to subglobose, 3-angled, leathery, dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds many, in 2 rows per locule, flat. x = 12.

Species ca. 150: introduced ; North America, temperate Eurasia (especially c, w Asia), n Africa, cultivated worldwide.

The common garden tulip (Tulipa gesneriana Linnaeus) and a number of other species (T. bakeri Hall, T. clusiana de Candolle, T. fosteriana Hoog ex W. Irving, T. kaufmanniana Regel, T. tarda Stapf), as well as a vast array of complex hybrid cultivars, are commonly planted for their spring flowers. Over 3500 names applied to tulips are currently listed (J. van Scheepen 1996) . While some of these species or cultivars may persist for a short time, they rarely become truly naturalized in the flora . Taxonomic difficulties abound in Tulipa due to their long-established cultivation, hybridization, and selection.

Viral infection of tulips results in odd, yet often attractive, colored streaks in the flowers. In the early 1600s these variants , called broken tulips, became prized in the Netherlands, widely sought, and worth considerable money. The ensuing tulipomania lead to widespread trading, speculation, and then, as with most similar fads , a sudden market collapse in 1637 (W. Blunt 1950; M. Dash 1999; F. A. Stafleu 1963) .[2]

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Notes

Publishing author : K .Perss. Publication : New Plantsman 7(4): 200 (2000) 2000

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 09-Jul-2004

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Tulipa

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 562 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

T. acuminata (Turkish Tulip) · T. bakeri 'Lilac Wonder' (Lilac Wonder Species Tulip Tulipa Bakeri) · T. batalinii (Batalin Tulip) · T. batalinii 'Apricot Jewel' (Batalin Botanical Tulip) · T. batalinii 'Bright Gem' (Batalin Botanical Tulip) · T. batalinii 'Bronze Charm' (Batalin Botanical Tulip) · T. batalinii 'Red Gem' (Batalin Botanical Tulip) · T. batalinii 'Red Hunter' (Batalin Botanical Tulip) · T. biflora (Miniature Tulip) · T. celsiana (Cels Tulip) · T. clusiana (Lady Tulip) · T. clusiana var. chrysantha (Candlestick Tulip) · T. clusiana var. chrysantha 'Tubergen's Gem' (Lady Tulip) · T. clusiana 'Cynthia' (Lady Tulip) · T. clusiana 'Lady Jane' (Lady Tulip) · T. clusiana 'Peppermint Stick' (Lady Tulip) · T. clusiana 'Tinka' (Lady Tulip) · T. cretica (Cretan Tulip) · T. elegans 'Alba' (Tulip) · T. ferganica (Species Tulip) · T. gesneriana (Didier's Tulip) · T. gesneriana 'Alba' (Didiers Tulip) · T. greigii (Greigii Tulip) · T. greigii Regel 'Plaisir' (Greigii Tulip) · T. greigii 'Ali Baba' (Greigii Tulip) · T. greigii 'Annie Salomons' (Greigii Tulip) · T. greigii 'Atje Keulen' (Greigii Tulip) · T. greigii 'Authority' (Greigii Tulip) · T. greigii 'Calypso' (Greigii Tulip) · T. greigii 'Cape Cod' (Greigii Tulip) · T. greigii 'Casa Grande' (Greigii Tulip) · T. greigii 'Chopin' (Greigii Tulip) · T. greigii 'Compostella' (Greigii Tulip) · T. greigii 'Corsage' (Greigii Tulip) · T. greigii 'Donna Bella' (Greigii Tulip) · T. greigii 'Flowerdale' (Greigii Tulip) · T. greigii 'Fur Elise' (Greigii Tulip) · T. greigii 'March of Time' (Greigii Tulip) · T. greigii 'Oratorio' (Greigii Tulip) · T. greigii 'Peacock' (Greigii Tulip) · T. greigii 'Pinocchio' (Greigii Tulip) · T. greigii 'Red Riding Hood' (Greigii Tulip) · T. greigii 'Rosanna' (Greigii Tulip) · T. greigii 'Royal Splendour' (Greigii Tulip) · T. greigii 'Toronto' (Greigii Tulip) · T. greigii 'Tsar Peter' (Greigii Tulip) · T. greigii 'United States' (Greigii Tulip) · T. hageri 'Splendens' (Species Tulip) · T. humilis var. pulchella (Species Tulip Albocaerulea Oculata Group) · T. humilis var. violacea (Crocus Tulip) · T. humilis var. violacea 'Black Base' (Crocus Tulip) · T. humilis 'Eastern Star' (Crocus Tulip) · T. humilis 'Helene' (Tulipa 'helene') · T. humilis 'Odalisque' (Crocus Tulip) · T. kaufmanniana (Waterlily Tulip) · T. kaufmanniana 'Showwinner' (Waterlily Tulip) · T. kaufmanniana 'Ancilla' (Waterlily Tulip) · T. kaufmanniana 'Corona' (Waterlily Tulip) · T. kaufmanniana 'Early Harvest' (Waterlily Tulip) · T. kaufmanniana 'Fashion' (Waterlily Tulip) · T. kaufmanniana 'Gaiety' (Waterlily Tulip) · T. kaufmanniana 'Giuseppe Verdi' (Waterlily Tulip) · T. kaufmanniana 'Heart's Delight' (Waterlily Tulip) · T. kaufmanniana 'Johann Strauss' (Waterliliy Tulip) · T. kaufmanniana 'Love Song' (Waterlily Tulip) · T. kaufmanniana 'Monsella' (Waterlily Tulip) · T. kaufmanniana 'Scarlet Baby' (Waterlily Tulip) · T. kaufmanniana 'Shakespeare' (Waterlily Tulip) · T. kaufmanniana 'Stresa' (Waterlily Tulip) · T. kolpakowskiana (Kolpakowskis Tulip) · T. kolpakowskiana 'Kolpa's Gem' (Kolpakowskis Tulip) · T. linifolia (Slimleaf Tulip) · T. marjolletii (Species Tulip) · T. maximowiczii (Species Tulip) · T. orphanidea var. flava (Wild Tulip) · T. praestans 'Fuselier' (Species Tulip) · T. praestans 'Unicum' (Species Tulip) · T. pulchella var. violacea 'Persian Pearl' (Crocus Tulip) · T. saxatilis (Species Tulip) · T. sogdiana (Species Tulip) · T. sprengeri (Species Tulip) · T. sylvestris (Florentine Tulip) · T. tarda (Tarda Tulip) · T. turkestanica (Species Tulip) · T. urumiensis (Species Tulip) · T. vvedenskyi (Vvedenskys Tulip) · T. vvedenskyi 'Bernadette' (Tulip 'bernadette') · T. whittallii (Species Tulip) · T. wilsoniana (Mountain Tulip) · T. 'Aafke' (Single Early Tulip) · T. 'Abba' (Double Early Tulip) · T. 'Abbey Dream' (Lily Flowered Tulip) · T. 'Abbey Road' (Triumph Tulip) · T. 'Abbe Pierre' (Triumph Tulip) · T. 'Abigail' (Double Late Tulip) · T. 'Abra' (Triumph Tulip) · T. 'Abra Elite' (Triumph Tulip) · T. 'Absalon' (Rembrandt Tulip) · T. 'Abu Hassan' (Triumph Tulip) · T. 'Acapulco' (Darwin Hybrid Tulip)

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Footnotes

  1. Xinqi Chen, Prof. Song-Yun Liang, Jie-mei Xu, David E. Boufford, Michael G. Gilbert, Rudolf V. Kamelin, Shoichi Kawano, Tetsuo Koyama, Elena V. Mordak, Junko Noguchi, Victor G. Soukup, Hiroshi Takahashi, Kamilla G. Tamanian, Minoru N. Tamura & Nicholas J. Turland "Liliaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 73. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  2. Gerald B. Straley  & Frederick H. Utech "Tulipa". in Flora of North America Vol. 26 Page 15, 53, 57, 153, 199. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
Last Revised: 7/23/2012