Kingdom Plantae Family Iridaceae Tribe Irideae Rank Species | Order Asparagales Subfamily Iridoideae Genus Iris | |
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Iris winkleri (or Winkler Iris) is a species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus of Hermodactyloides and Section Monolepsis. It is a bulbous perennial.
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It was discovered by botanists in 1884 and published in the Trudy Sankt-Peterburgskogo botanicheskogo sada (Transactions of the St. Petersburg Botanical Garden) between 1884 and 1885. The plant is named after Konstantin George Alexander Winkler (14 June 1848 - 3 February 1900), a botanist from the University of Tartu in Estonia. Later in 1897, Winkler was made head botanist at Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden.
Habit
The Iris is deemed to be very similar to Iris kolpakowskiana (also part of the Monolepsis section of Hermodactyloides sub-genus), but it has a membranous covering to the bulb. I.kolpakowskiana (the other member of the section) has a netted covering. Another close relative is I. pskemensis (another snowmelt found iris).
It grows to about 10–20 cm tall with blueish-violet flowers which appear in June.
Native
It was originally found in the temperate regions of middle Asia and Kyrgyzstan. It is also found in other former states of the Soviet Union, (including Uzbekistan) and the Tian Shan mountain ranges.