Description

Discovered in 1988 by Henrik Zetterlund of the botanic gardens in Gothenburg, this is a high altitude, snow-melt species from near Gundogmus in the Antalya province of Southern Turkey. The flowers are a deep yellow-orange and are invariably covered on the exterior with tiny but dense, bronze and brown speckles and flecks. The flowers have large, flattened yellow anthers around a trifid, deeper orange style. These styles are not invariably shorter than the anthers as suggested and so this character is not diagnostic, however the species is perfectly distinct from anything that resembles it.

This sets good seed, which comes true and though it makes underground corm increase, this can be slower than many species.

henrickii