Muscari pallens Fisch.

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PLANTS OF THE CAUCASUS (GEORGIA)
HYACINTHACEAE
Pseudomuscari pallens (M. Bieb.) Garbari
det. G. Nakhutsrishvili
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
The Republic of Georgia. Kazbegi region,Dariali Canyon, ca.
100 m W of the main road, ca. 42°42'16 N, 44°37'35.4 E, ca.
1459 m. (coordinates from hand-held GPS). Meadow between
moraines. Festucetum. Plant cover 95%. Veronica
chamaedrys, Viola sp., Festuca supina, Amoria ambigua.
Annual. Roots slender. Raceme usually fairly dense, pedicels
deflexed or recurved at anthesis. Fertile flowers blue,
concolorous or with whitish lobes (teeth). Sterile flowers
smaller, few or none. Capsule trigonous, membranous and
dehiscent.
Otar Abdaladze 556
Marina Chiboshvili, Temur Siukaev
26 May 2005
The New York Botanical Garden (NY)
in Collaboration with
N. Ketskhoveli Institute of Botany, Georgian Academy of Sciences
03946047