Muscari species

Eker, İsma İl, 2021, Taxonomic resurrection of Muscari wallii (Asparagaceae, Scilloideae), Phytotaxa 513 (3), pp. 226-242 : 239

Key to closely related Muscari species :

1. Capsule with swollen valves; sterile flowers often ice-blue, rarely pinkish; young intermediate flowers pinkish-red at proximal part, creamy at distal part with greenish shoulders; fertile flowers cylindrical to obconical-cylindrical, 10−14 mm long................. .......................................................................................................................................................................................... M. babachii

1. Capsule with compressed valves; sterile flowers shades of violet; young intermediate flowers dark purple, dark purplish-red, dark violet or violet-red at proximal part, creamy at distal part with greenish or creamy shoulders; fertile flowers narrowly oblong to obconical, 6−10(−12) mm long ..........................................................................................................................................................2

2. Shoulders of fertile flowers ivory to pale beige; young intermediate flowers dark violet at proximal part, creamy at distal part and shoulders; pedicels of uppermost sterile flowers ascending or erecto-patent at maturity; seed surface ornamentation pustulate....... .................................................................................................................................................................................... M. tenuiflorum

2. Shoulders of fertile flowers brownish-black; young intermediate flowers dark purple, dark purplish-red or violet-red at proximal part, creamy at distal part with greenish shoulders; pedicels of uppermost sterile flowers deflexed at maturity; seed surface ornamentation rugose ............................................................................................................................................................ M. wallii