Iris unguicularis subsp. carica (Wern. Schulze) A. P. Davis & Jury

Raab-Straube, Eckhard von & Raus, Thomas, 2023, Euro + Med-Checklist Notulae, 16, Willdenowia 53 (1), pp. 57-77 : 62-63

Iris unguicularis subsp. carica (Wern. Schulze) A. P. Davis & Jury

– Gr: This taxon was erroneously reported from the Ionian and W and C Aegean islands and continental Greece ( Dimopoulos & al. 2013, 2020; Flora Ionica Working Group 2016 +; Strid 2016: map 2066), where in fact it is replaced by Iris unguicularis subsp. angustifolia (Boiss. & Heldr.) Greuter (see Davis & Jury 1990: 296–297). Iris unguicularis subsp. carica (s. str.) is confined to SW Anatolia (vilayets of İzmir and Muğla, the ancient territories of Caria and Lycia) and the East Aegean Islands of Chios, Samos, Kos, Tilos, Simi and Rodos ( Mathew 2000; Burton & Tan 2017). It should be noted that Davis & Jury (1990: 295, 297), when erecting I. unguicularis subsp. carica var. carica (Wern. Schulze) A. P. Davis & Jury and var. syriaca (Wern. Schulze) A. P. Davis & Jury , ascribed their new combinations to the basionym author “W. Schultze”, therewith erroneously referring to Wilhelm Schultze ( Brummitt & Powell 1992: 576), who worked on the genus Rubus in C Europe (see, e.g., Sagorski 1894), instead of correctly to the Iris researcher Werner Schulze ( Schulze 1965), whose standardized author abbreviation reads “Wern. Schulze”. The nominate subspecies of Iris unguicularis is native to oak forests in Mediterranean NW Africa, while Levantine populations of the species (see Davis & Jury 1990: 291, fig. 19) belong to I. unguicularis subsp. syriaca (Wern. Schulze) Güner. Th. Raus