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Botanical Description

Bulb to 2.5cm across, sometimes with a few bulbils. Stem 6-24cm tall. Leaves five to nine all alternate or the lowest subopposite, lanceolate. Flowers one to four broadly campanulate, purple with a yellow apex, usually not tessellated, having a sperm-like scent. Tepals 2-3.2cm, with a linear nectary from the angle of the bell to near the apex. Style 7-9mm, trifid, the branches 2-3mm Capsule not winged, but with the dried petals remaining attached. North-eastern Turkey, in screes and stony slopes at 2000-3000m.

a, F. bucharica; b, F. michailovskyi; c, F. pudica; d, F. recurva;