Bellevalia decolorans Bornmüller (1908: 109)

Abdollahi, Mohammad Reza, Bӧhnert, Tim, Weigend, Maximilian & Zarre, Shahin, 2025, Insights from morphological investigations and molecular phylogenetics reveal a new synonymy in Bellevalia (Asparagaceae: Scilloideae) in Iran, Phytotaxa 698 (3), pp. 155-164 : 162

Bellevalia decolorans Bornmüller (1908: 109) .

Type: —(lectotype designated by Wendelbo 1990) IRAN. In Monte Kuh-Sefid , 2 May 1903, TH. Strauss ( B: B100088594 , Digital image!;

isotype B 100088594, Digital image!; JE: JE 00022479, Digital image!; LE: LE 00010938, Digital image!). = Bellevalia shiraziana Parsa (1949: 34) , syn. nov. Type: —(lectotype, designated by Wendelbo 1990): IRAN. Desht-arjin, near Schiraz, 2400– 1800 m., 20–22 May 1885, O. Stapf ( K:

K 000098296, Digital image!).

Description: —Geophytic, bulbous plants. Bulbs 1–3 cm diam., ovoid, tunic greyish brown to dark brown. Leaves 3–6, overtopping the scape, outer ones 7–23× 4–8 cm, narrowly linear to linear-lanceolate, lanceolate or rarely to oblanceolate-obovate, canaliculate, eciliate at margins. Scape single or rarely 2 per bulb, (2–3–) 6–12 cm long, elongating in fruit. Raceme densely 6–25-flowered, up to 2 cm diam. when flowering, elongating in fruit. Pedicel 0.5–2.5 mm long elongating up to 5 mm in fruit, ascending, thickened. Flower buds pale brownish to olive green. Perianth pale blue, becoming brownish when dried, 6.5–10(–12) mm long, tubular-campanulate; lobes actinomorphic with all lobes equal or sub-zygomorphic with one exterior lobe being larger than the others, 1/2–1/3 as long as the tube, rounded at the apex. Filaments c. 1.5–2 mm long, triangular-subulate, flattened, connate at base; anthers violet, ca. 1.5 mm long. Capsules distinctly tri-lobed, acute first, becoming emarginate when mature; valves 10–13× 10–16 mm, broadly ovate to broadly elliptic. Seeds brown to dark brown or black, rounded to broadly elliptic, 2–2.5 mm diam.

Additional specimens examined: — IRAN. Prov. Kermanshah: Kuh-Parrou ( Parrow ), 1700–2100 m, 7 May 1975, P. Wendelbo & M. Assadii 16724 ( TARI) ; Kinischt , 27 April 1903, Th. Strauss ( JE: JE00020121 , Digital image!) ; Kuh Sefid , 12 March 1903, Th. Strauss ( JE: JE00022479 , Digital image!) ; Kuh-Sefid ditionis Kermandschahan , 2 May 1903, J. Bornmüller ( B: B100088595 , Digital image!) ; Prov. Fars: kuh Charmakan ( Cheramakan ), SW Shiraz, 3000 m, O. Stapf ( K: K000802731 , Digital image!) ; Marvdasht, Ramjerd, Chamani , Ayub Mt , 30°03′10″ N, 52°39′07″ E, 1700–1850 m, 18 March 2019, A. Zeraatkar 86288 ( TARI) ; Marvdasht, Dorodzan, sinoptic station Zaneh Mt. , 30°10′40″ N, 52°27′40″ E, 1850–1900 m, 27 March 2019, A. Zeraatkar 86284 ( TARI) ; Marvdasht, Dorodzan, sinoptic station Zaneh Mt. , 30°10′40″ N, 52°27′40″ E, 1850–1900 m, 30 May 2019, A. Zeraatkar 86285 ( TARI) ; Marvdasht, distr. Ramjerd, Kuh-e Ayyub , south of Ayyub-e Nabi shrine, 30.0512°N, 52.6444°E, 1725-1981 m, 24 April 2023, S. Zarre & M. R. Abdollahi 47861 ( TUH) ; Bavanat, Mazayejan, on the road to Pirkadooieh area , near Aqa-Hosseini Mountain , 30.3042°N, 53.7538°E, 2805–2900 m, 22 April 2023, S. Zarre & M. R. Abdollahi 47842 ( TUH) . IRAQ. Pira Magrun above Sulaimaniya, 2438 m, 27 April 1958, O. Polunin 5152 ( K: K002924600 , Digital image!) ; MRO, Chiya-i Marmarut , 19 April 1932, E. Guest 2066 ( K: K002924598 , Digital image!) ; MSU, Sulaimaniya, Graham 651 ( K: K002924599 , Digital image!) .