Tulipa scharipovii

Description: — Bulb ovoid, 3.0 – 3.5 сm long and 2.0 – 2.5 cm wide; tunic coriaceous, black-brown to dark brown, not prolonged, inside densely hairy, especially at the top; plants of relatively slender habit; stem thin, glabrous (10) 15 – 20 cm long; leaves 3, nearly verticillate, deflexed and usually lying on the soil surface, 7 – 10 сm long, do not exceeding the flower, glabrous, narrow lanceolate, more or less curled, undulate at margins; basal leaf 0.5 – 1.0 сm wide; flower solitary, 2.5 – 3.0 cm long, yellow, pendulous in the bud, initially cup-shaped, opening to a wide star, perigone segments without blotch, elliptic or oblong, at the apex obtuse or sinuate, after anthesis turn brownish at the top; stamen 9 – 10 mm long, 2.0 – 2.5 times shorter than perigone; filaments yellow, glabrous, narrow triangular (dilated at the base); anthers yellow, as long as filaments; ovary greenish, longer than stamen (Fig. 6 A). General distribution: — Endemic to the northern foothills of the Fergana Valley (Uzbekistan).

Ecology: — Slightly saline loess soils, sometimes gravelly and stony slopes of foothills, 500 – 900 m a. s. l.