Tulipa kolpakowskiana Regel

Tulipa kolpakowskiana Regel View in CoL , Trudy Imp. S. Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 5: 266 (1877).

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Type.

Kazakhstan • ‘ In Turkestania prope Verniy et in valle fluvii Almatinka’ , A. Regel ( holotype LE; possible isotype K) .

General distribution.

Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and China ( Xinjiang) ( POWO 2024).

Distribution in Kazakhstan and habitat.

Trans-Ili Kungey Alatau, Moiynkum, Chu-Ili range, Dzungarian Alatau, Kyrgyz Alatau, and Ketmen Terskey Alatau. This species grows on clayey, less often gravelly, slopes of steppe and desert foothills.

Conservation status.

Tulipa kolpakowskiana is a near threatened species at the global level ( IUCN 2024). It is included in the red book of Kazakhstan (Category III).

Phenology.

Flowering in April – May; fruiting in June – July.

Notes.

Tulipa kolpakowskiana was first described by E. L. Regel in 1877 from Verniy vicinity ( Almaty). This species was named in honor of G. A. Kolpakowskiy, an honorary member of the Russian Geographical Society ( Ivashchenko and Belyalov 2019). Van Raamsdonk et al. (1997) classified this species as a synonym of T. altaica var altaica . However, after studying wild material, Zonneveld (2009), distinguished it as a separate species of the section Kolpakowskianae ( Everett et al. 2013) . In nature, this species often hybridizes with T. ostrowskiana , T. tetraphylla , and T. brachystemon ( Vvedensky 1935; Ivashchenko and Belyalov 2019).