''Tulipa regelii'', the plicate tulip or

Regel Eduard August von Regel (sometimes Edward von Regel or Edward de Regel or Édouard von Regel), Russian: Эдуард Август Фон Регель; (born 13 August 1815 in Gotha; died 15 April 1892 in St. Petersburg) was a German horticultural ...

's tulip, is a species of

tulip Tulips (''Tulipa'') are a genus of spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes (having bulbs as storage organs). The flowers are usually large, showy and brightly coloured, generally red, pink, yellow, or white (usually in war ...

native to southeast

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental coun ...

. Rare, growing only in certain dry, rocky areas in the

Chu-Ili Range The Chu-Ili Range ( kk, Шу-Іле таулары) is a range of mountains in Kazakhstan. Administratively it is part of the Almaty and Zhambyl regions. The M36 Highway skirts the range along its northeastern flank. Google Earth Geography Th ...

, a northern subrange of the

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range, it is a very distinctive species with bizarre

plicate Plicata, ''plicate'', ''plicated'', ''pleated'' or ''folded'' in Latin, may refer to: * Lingua plicata, a benign condition characterized by deep grooves in the dorsum of the tongue * Pars plicata The pars plicata (also known as corona ciliaris ) ...

leaves, usually only one, occasionally two. The species was first formally named by Russian botanist and geographer . It flowers in April.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15546910 regelii Endemic flora of Kazakhstan