Tulipa clusiana

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|name = Lady tulip

|image = Tulip Tulipa clusiana 'Lady Jane' Rock Ledge Flower 2000px.jpg

|image_caption = 'Lady Jane' cultivar

|genus = Tulipa

|parent = Tulipa subg. Clusianae

|species = clusiana

|authority = Red. Liliac. 1: t. 37 (1803){{cite web |title=Tulipa clusiana Redouté {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:542880-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=6 June 2021 |language=en}}

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|Tulipa praecox Cav.

|Tulipa rubroalba Brot.

|Tulipa stellata Hook.

|Tulipa hispanica Willd. ex Schult. & Schult.f.

|Liriactis albiflora Raf

|Tulipa fernandezii Blatt.

|Tulipa porphyreochrysantha Blatt.

|Tulipa aitchisonii A.D.Hall

|Tulipa hafisii Bornm. & Gauba

|Tulipa chitralensis A.D.Hall

|Tulipa grey-wilsonii Rech.f.

|Tulipa oreophila Rech.f.

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Tulipa clusiana, the lady tulip,{{PLANTS|id=TUCL|taxon=Tulipa clusiana|accessdate=12 December 2015}} is an Asian species of tulip native to Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and the western Himalayas. It is widely cultivated as an ornamental and is reportedly naturalized in France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Tunisia, Greece, and Turkey.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=289745 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]Zonneveld, B.J.M. (2009). The systematic value of nuclear genome size for "all" species of Tulipa L. (Liliaceae). Plant Systematics and Evolution 281: 217-245.Dobignard, D. & Chatelain, C. (2010). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 1: 1-455. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.Kumar, S. (2012). Herbaceous flora of Jaunsar-Bawar (Uttarakhand), India: enumerations. Phytotaxonomy 12: 33-56.Dimpoulos, P., Raus, T., Bergmeier, E., Constantinidis, T., Iatrou, G., Kokkini, S., Strid, A., & Tzanoudakis, D. (2013). Vascular plants of Greece. An annotated checklist: 1-372. Botanic gardens and botanical museum Berlin-Dahlem, Berlin and Hellenic botanical society, Athens.Everett, D. (2013). The genus Tulipa Tulips of the world: 1-380. Kew publishing, Kew.Christenhusz, M.J.M., Govaerts, R., David, J.C., Hall, T., Borland, K., Roberts, P.S., Tuomisto, A., Buerki, S., Chase, M.W. & Fay, M.F. (2013). Tiptoe through the tulips - cultural history, molecular phylogenetics and classification of Tulipa (Liliaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 172: 280-328.Eker, I., Babaç, M.T. & Koyuncu, M. (2014). Revision of the genus Tulipa L. (Liliaceae) in Turkey. Phytotaxa 157: 1-112.

The plant grows to a height of 6 to 12 in (15 to 30 cm). It flowers during the spring season.Redouté, Pierre Joseph. 1803. Les Liliacees 1:plate 37.[http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/index1.php?scientific-name=tulipa+clusiana Altervista Flora Italiana, Tulipano di Clusius, Tulipa clusiana DC.]

The following cultivars have received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. All are relatively small, with narrow pointed tepals, often bi-coloured.

• 'Cynthia'{{cite web | url = https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/96940/Tulipa-clusiana-Cynthia-(15)/Details | title = Tulipa clusiana 'Cynthia' | publisher = RHS | access-date = 5 March 2021}} (outsides pink edged pale yellow, insides pale yellow)
• 'Lady Jane'{{cite web | url = https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/194056/Tulipa-Lady-Jane-(15)/Details | title = Tulipa 'Lady Jane' | publisher = RHS | access-date = 5 March 2021}} (inners white, outers pink bordered with white)
• 'Peppermintstick'{{cite web | url = https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/275433/Tulipa-Peppermintstick-(15)/Details | title = Tulipa 'Peppermintstick' | publisher = RHS | access-date = 5 March 2021}} (outers cerise pink with white borders, inners white)
• 'Tinka'{{cite web | url = https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/154270/Tulipa-Tinka-(15)/Details | title = Tulipa 'Tinka' | publisher = RHS | access-date = 5 March 2021}} (yellow inside, red bordered yellow on the outside)
• var. chrysantha{{cite web | url = https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/91640/Tulipa-clusiana-var-chrysantha-(15)/Details | title = Tulipa clusiana var. chrysantha | publisher = RHS | access-date = 5 March 2021}} (yellow flowers, flushed red on the outside)