Fritillaria burnatii or what
Mary Sue Ittner via pbs (Mon, 15 Feb 2021 11:02:14 PST)

I often find when I have a few minutes to work on the wiki that it turns
into much longer as I try to sort out what the current thinking is on
what to call a plant we have pictured on the wiki. In this case the
photos were from Ian Young. I'm also missing Jim McKenney who was so
good about explaining about spelling of plant names. After puzzling
about where to put the photos I remembered if as long as we include the
namers of a plant name we are safe so I put the photos with Fritillaria
burnatii which may now be considered to be Fritillaria meleagris ssp.
burnatii or Fritillaria tubaeformis var. burnatii or even Fritillaria
tubiformis var. burnatii. Below is what I wrote, but am happy to hear
from Fritillaria experts about what to call it.

Fritillaria burnatii (Planch.) Backh. was considered by The Plant List
in 2012 to be a synonym of Fritillaria meleagris ssp. burnatii (Planch.)
Rix. That subspecies was named in 1978. It is described by Plants of the
World Online on the Fritillaria meleagris page as having purple
perianth-segments, filaments that are smooth or sparsely covered with
short, rounded projections, a smooth style, and as found in alpine
pastures in France and Italy. However that subspecies is not listed in
Plants of the World Online in 2021 and Fritillaria burnatii is listed as
a synonym of Fritillaria tubaeformis var. burnatii (Planch.) Rouy (named
in 1910.) IPNI and Plants of the World Online have it named under that
spelling, but Wikipedia says the correct spelling of that species should
be Fritillaria tubiformis.

Ian's photos are here:

https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

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