Fritillaria rhodocanakis

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| genus = Fritillaria

| species = rhodocanakis

| authority = Orph. ex Baker

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Fritillaria rhodocanakis is a species of plant in the lily family Liliaceae. In its pure form, it is found only on Hydra Island (also called Ydra or Hydrea or Ύδρα) and on small neighboring islands in Greece .{{cite web | url = http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=306859|title=Fritillaria rhodocanakis Orph. ex Baker, J. Bot. 16: 323 (1878)|publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|access-date=December 3, 2020}}Hansen, Alfred 1969. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 29: 329 Additional populations occur in the Peloponnisos region of mainland Greece, though the specimens there show some degree of hybridization with F. spetsiotica and F. graeca. In 1987, some of the hybrids were described with the name Fritillaria rhodocanakis subsp. argolica,{{cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3996502|title=Fritillaria rhodocanakis subsp. argolica (Liliaceae), a New Subspecies from Peloponnese, Greece|last=Zaharof|first=Eugenia|journal=Willdenowia|year=1987|volume=16|issue=2|pages=343–348|jstor=3996502}} but this is now generally referred to as Fritillaria × spetsiotica Kamari.{{cite web|url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=306860|title=Fritillaria rhodocanakis subsp. argolica Zaharof, Willdenowia 16: 348 (1987)|publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|access-date=December 9, 2020}}

Fritillaria rhodocanakis is a bulb-forming herbaceous perennial. The flowers are nodding and pendent, each tepal purple with a yellow tip.{{cite web|url=http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/EuropeanFritillariaTwo|title=European Fritillaria Two|publisher=Pacific Bulb Society|access-date=December 3, 2020}}Baker. 1878. Journal of Botany 16:323.[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_genus=Fritillaria&find_species=rhodocanakis&find_rankToReturn=spec The International Plant Names Index]

The species is listed as endangered by the IUCN.{{cite web|url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/162170/89338335|title=Fritillaria rhodocanakis|publisher=International Union for Conservation of Nature|access-date=December 3, 2020}} As of 2020, there were 500 mature individuals of the species with a stable conservation trend.