Scilla luciliae

Scilla luciliae is a species of flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family.[2] It is referred to by the common names Bossier's glory-of-the-snow[3] or Lucile's glory-of-the-snow, and is a bulbous perennial from western Turkey that flowers in early spring. After flowering, it goes into dormancy until the next spring. The Latin name is in honour of Lucile, the wife of the Swiss botanist Pierre Edmond Boissier.[4] It belongs to a group of Scilla species that were formerly put in a separate genus, Chionodoxa, and may now be treated as Scilla sect. Chionodoxa.[5]

Scilla luciliae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Scilloideae
Genus: Scilla
Section: Scilla sect. Chionodoxa
Species:
S. luciliae
Binomial name
Scilla luciliae
(Boiss.) Speta[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Chionodoxa luciliae Boiss.
  • Chionodoxa gigantea Whittall
  • Chionodoxa grandiflora Wore ex Wilks & Weather

Description

Like all members of the former genus Chionodoxa, the bases of the stamens are flattened and closely clustered in the middle of the flower. In other species of Scilla, the stamens are not flattened or clustered together.[6]

Each bulb produces two leaves, up to 8 cm long and 2 cm wide, and at most one flowering stem, up to 10 cm long. The flowers are produced in a loose pyramidal raceme, with 2–3 flowers per stem, which face upwards. Each flower is up to 3.5 cm across. The base of each tepal is white (as are the stamen filaments), producing a white 'eye'. The outer part of the tepals is violet-blue. The species can be distinguished from the commonest species grown in gardens, S. forbesii, by the much smaller number of slightly larger flowers per stem.[7]

Distribution

Scilla luciliae is native to western Turkey.[1] It has a restricted distribution in the Mahmut Mountain in İzmir Province.[5]

Cultivation

Scilla luciliae has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit,[8] confirmed in 2017.[9]

Notes and references
  1. "Scilla luciliae", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP), Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2020-03-17
  2. "Scilla luciliae (Boiss.) Speta". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
  3. BSBI List 2007, Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, archived from the original (xls) on 2014-10-23, retrieved 2014-10-17
  4. Paghat's garden, Paghat.com, retrieved 2018-10-08
  5. Yildirim et al. (2017)
  6. Mathew (1987), p. 25
  7. Dashwood & Mathew (2005), p. 7
  8. RHS Plantfinder - Scilla luciliae (Boiss.) Speta, retrieved 2018-07-10
  9. AGM Plants - Ornamental (PDF), Royal Horticultural Society, July 2017, p. 16, retrieved 2018-01-24

Bibliography
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