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Tulipa zenaidae Vved.

  • 1. Astana Botanical Garden, Astana 010016, Kazakhstan
  • 2. Department of Biology and Chemistry, Changwon National University, Changwon 51140, Republic of Korea
  • 3. Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Tashkent 100125, Uzbekistan
  • 4. Institute of Zoology, Almaty 050000, Kazakhstan
  • 5. Institute of Botany and Phytointroduction, Almaty 050000, Kazakhstan
  • 6. Department of Forest Biodiversity and Herbarium, Korea National Arboretum, Pocheon, Republic of Korea

Description

Tulipa zenaidae Vved., Byull. Sredne-Aziatsk. Gosud. Univ. 21: 150 (1935).

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Type.

Kyrgyzstan • ‘ Habitat in montibus Alexandricis (Tian-Shan) ’, 14 June 1932, Vvedensky 280 (TASH).

General distribution.

Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan (Sennikov and Tojibaev 2021).

Distribution in Kazakhstan and habitat.

Kyrgyz Alatau. This species grows in fine earth and gravelly slopes, usually with thickets of bushes, in the lower mountain belt.

Conservation status.

Tulipa zenaidae is a vulnerable species at the global level (IUCN 2024); it is included in the Red Book of Kazakhstan (Category II).

Phenology.

Flowering in April – May; fruiting May – July.

Notes.

Tulipa zenaidae was described by A. I. Vvedensky in 1935 from Kyrgyz Ridge (Mount Shekule). The species was named in honor of Zinaida Botschantzeva, who devoted her life to studying Central Asian tulips (Ivashchenko and Belyalov 2019). According to the latest classification, this species was assigned the synonym of T. lehmanniana (Christenhusz et al. 2013; Everett et al. 2013). Wilson (2023) later confirmed that T. zenaidae is a different species from T. lehmanniana which we agree with in this study.

Notes

Published as part of Kubentayev, Serik A., Baasanmunkh, Shukherdorj, Alibekov, Daniyar T., Tojibaev, Komiljon Sh., Nyamgerel, Nudkhuu, Ivashchenko, Anna A., Tsegmed, Zagarjav, Epiktetov, Vladimir G., Sitpayeva, Gulnara T., Izbastina, Klara S., Idrissova, Zhansaya T., Mukhtubayeva, Saule K., Abubakirova, Nurganym B., Gil, Hee-Young & Choi, Hyeok Jae, 2024, Revisiting the genus Tulipa (Liliaceae) in Kazakhstan, the country with the richest tulip diversity worldwide, pp. 95-163 in PhytoKeys 250 on pages 95-163, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.250.136736

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
TASH
Event date
1932-06-14
Verbatim event date
1932-06-14
Scientific name authorship
Vved.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Liliales
Family
Liliaceae
Genus
Tulipa
Species
zenaidae
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype

References

  • Sennikov AN, Tojibaev KSh [Eds] (2021) Checklist of vascular plants of the Tian-Shan Mountain System. Korea National Arboretum, Pocheon, 607 pp. [In Russian]
  • IUCN (2024) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. https://www.iucnredlist.org [accessed 18 June 2024]
  • Ivashchenko AA, Belyalov OV (2019) Kazakhstan is the birthplace of Tulips. Almaty: Atamura, 368 pp. [In Russian]
  • Christenhusz MJ, Govaerts R, David JC, Hall T, Borland K, Roberts PS, Fay MF (2013) Tiptoe through the tulips-cultural history, molecular phylogenetics and classification of Tulipa (Liliaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 172 (3): 280–328. https://doi.org/10.1111/boj.12061
  • Everett D, Fay MF, Christenhusz MJ, Wilford R (2013) The genus Tulipa. Tulips of the world. Kew Garden Press, London, 379 pp.
  • Wilson B (2023) Tulipa: the taxonomy and evolutionary history of the genus and its impact on conservation priorities in Central Asia. PhD Thesis, University of Cambridge. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.94432