LILIES - RHS Lily Group
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glades at places Berezniki (environs of stanitsa Kumilzhenskaya), Shakinskaya Dubrava,<br />
Lokhmaty Barrow and others. Not seldom. Steppe plants. Fl. VI-VII.<br />
A. tulipifolium Ledeb.<br />
Perennial. Steppe chalk slopes, steep riverbanks, shrubby thickets. Seldom. It was not<br />
identified for the Khoper area (Sagalaev, 1987). Fl. IV-V. It is distinguished from the closely<br />
related A. decipiens by whitish (not pinkish), small flowers, anthers being protruded from<br />
the corolla, and by a shorter cover. Besides, A. tulipifolium flowers earlier in the year, so<br />
it is fruiting in June when A. decipiens is only beginning to flower. Steppe plants.<br />
V.P. Drobov (1906) identified another two species: Allium flavum L. for chalks near<br />
stanitsa Zotovskaya and A. moschatum L. for sands near stanitsa Ust-Buzulukskaya.<br />
It is not clear for us what alliums Mr Drobov had in mind under these names, because<br />
both species were described from Western Europe and apparently don’t reach the<br />
Khoper River. We don’t know where the herbarium specimens of V.P. Drobov are kept.<br />
We may suppose that A. flavum in his understanding is identical to A. flavescens Bess.<br />
Fam. COLCHICACEAE DC.<br />
Bulbocodium versicolor (Ker-Gawl). Spreng.<br />
Perennial. Kumilzhensky district, slopes of steppe ravines between stanitsa Slaschevskaya<br />
and khutor Shakin, near khutor Filinsky, on glades and edges in Shakinskaya Dubrava;<br />
Nekhaevsky district, near stanitsa Upornikovskaya; at times it is cultivated (khutor<br />
Chunosov). Very seldom. Edge of wood-steppe plants. Fl. III-IV. Included in the Red<br />
Data Book of Russia (1988, 2005) and of the Volgograd region (2005). The population<br />
of Bulbocodium near stanitsa Slaschevskaya is very small, situated along the edge of<br />
ravine, between agricultural field and slope of ravine, and may easily disappear. Plants<br />
with white flowers (f. alba) were found in the wild by local naturalist Sergej Grishin and<br />
replanted in his private garden.<br />
Colchicum laetum Stev.<br />
Perennial. Virgin steppe, saline soils and salty meadows. This species has not been<br />
found in the territory of the park yet, but identified in neighbouring territories of the<br />
Rostov region, in the environs of stanitsa Bokovskaya and khutor Grachev (Fedyaeva,<br />
2004). Halophilous-steppe plants. It is included in Red Data Book of Russia (1988,<br />
2005). This species is of very late flowering, usually in October, and apparently may be<br />
missed by collectors.<br />
Fam. HYACINTHACEAE Batsch<br />
Bellevalia speciosa (Georgi ex . Grossh.) Woron.<br />
(B. sarmatica (Pall. ex Georgi) Woronow)<br />
Perennial. Steppe slopes and edges of shrubs of a ravine Dolgy on right side of the<br />
Khoper River, environs of stanitsa Slaschevskaya. Seldom. Edge of wood-steppe plants.<br />
In former times this species was widely distributed throughout steppe zone of Eastern<br />
Europe. After the virgin steppe was ploughed up it has been quickly disappearing, and<br />
is a very rare plant. It is included in the Red Data Book of Russia (1988, 2005) and of the<br />
Volgograd region (2005). In the Lower Khoper Nature Park is was discovered on steppe<br />
slopes and on the edge of the Dolgy Ravine on the right side of the Khoper River, in<br />
the environs of stanitsa Slaschevskaya ( Firsov, Baranova, 2002). It was also identified<br />
in khutor Ostroukhovsky of Kumilzhensky district (Sagalaev, 2000).<br />
This species is more widely known under name B. sarmatica (Pall. ex Miscz.) Woronow,<br />
but E.V. Mordak in her last publications clarified that Bellevalia speciosa (Georgi ex<br />
Grossh.) Woron. is its true name and has priority. (Mordak, 2003).<br />
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