Iris spuria subsp. musulmanica (Fomin) Takht.

Raab-Straube, Eckhard von & Raus, Thomas, 2024, Euro + Med-Checklist Notulae, 17, Willdenowia 54 (1), pp. 5-45 : 21

Iris spuria subsp. musulmanica (Fomin) Takht.

(≡ I. musulmanica Fomin )

– N Cm: This name has been erroneously applied to two different taxa of Iris L. that occur in Crimea. Firstly, it concerns alien Iris plants naturalized in Yalta, on the S coast of Crimea, and originally given for the Crimean flora at the very end of the 20 th century ( Didukh & Yena 1999). Later the same name was included in the annotated checklist of the regional spontaneous flora ( Yena 2012) and mentioned with reference to that monograph in the Euro+Med-Checklist Notulae, 16 ( Svirin & Kashirina 2023). According to the taxonomic re-examination of those plants, I. spuria subsp. musulmanica is to be excluded from the Crimean flora and all records for this region mentioned here refer to I. foetidissima L. (see preceding entry). Secondly, the name I. spuria subsp. musulmanica was also misapplied to a herbarium specimen in MW collected in the Sevastopol area on 30 May 2012 ( Seregin 2023), which turned out to belong to the autochthonous I. halophila Pall. ( Svirin & Kashirina 2023) . This error is also mirrored in the occurrence data for I. spuria subsp. musulmanica provided by GBIF (2023); the locality on the Gerakleysky Peninsula in Crimea shown there refers in fact to I. halophila . A. V. Yena