Iris latifolia

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1980, Flora Europaea. Volume 5. Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 91

25. I. latifolia (Miller) Voss in Siebert & Voss, Vilmorin's Blumengärtnerei 1: 982 (1895)

( I. xiphioides Ehrh. ).

Plant leafless in winter. Bulb ovoid, invested by thin, more or less fibrous leafbases. Stem 25-50 cm. Lower leaves 25-65 cm x 5-8 mm, whitish on the concave surface, the upper shorter and wider and merging gradually into the spathes. Flowers 2(-3), violet-blue, the falls with ayellowish centre; pedicels 25-70 mm; spathes 75-100 mm, herbaceous, inflated. Hypanthial tube c. 5 mm. Falls 60-75 x 30-35 mm; limb ovate-oblong, not sharply delimited from claw; claw 25-30 mm wide, obovate, shorter than or equalling the limb. Standards 40-60 x 15-20 mm, oblanceolate. Seedsglobose, rugose, dark reddish-brown. Damp, grassy places. • Pyrenees, Cordillera Cantäbrica . Ga Hs.