Tulipa lehmanniana

Description: — Bulb ovoid, 2 – 4 cm thick; tunic prolonged to soil surface, very tough, thickened, coriaceous, fibrous, splitting, almost scale-like, black to tawny, on the inside densely covered with curly woolly hairs; stem (10 –) 20 – 40 cm long, the upper part almost equal or slightly longer than the underground part, the stem and peduncle glabrous; leaves 4, deflexed, scattered, glaucous, curled, glabrous, smooth-margined, do not exceed the flower; lower leaf lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 1.5 – 2.5 cm broad; upper leaves rather rapidly decreasing in size, usually markedly shorter than lower; flower solitary, initially graceful cyathiform then widely opening; perigone segments yellow, orange or red, 2.5 – 7.0 cm long, usually with a short slightly pubescent tip; with the dark violet, blackish-violet or brownish basal blotch on the inner face, rarely on both faces, sometimes without blotch; outer segments obovate to oblong rhomboidal; inner segments triangular - lanceolate to triangular - obovate; stamens one third the length of perigone; filaments glabrous, black in red form, yellow in yellow form, half as long as the ovary; anthers yellow, as long as filaments; pollen yellow; ovary green, slightly shorter than stamens, with sessile stigma; capsule 1.0 – 1.5 cm in diameter, 2.5 – 3.0 cm long. General distribution: — Eastern Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan.