Corydalis ID ?

[Otto Fauser]

in flower today in my garden is this Corydalis grown from seed collected in Afghanistan ,
inthe Leonticoides section  [it has a large tuber],not terribly exciting, but it would be nice
to know which species it is - does someone grow it too ?
   many thanks  ,
         Otto.
 

[Hristo]

Hi Otto,
Looks like C.maracandica, I have posted my bulb flowering in the corydalis section of the forum earlier in the year if you want to compare.
Cheers
Chris

[Otto Fauser]

 thanks Hristo , yes my plant looks very much like your C .maracandica ,though your's is so much more compact , but then your winters are much more severe than here in Melbourne ,
 and all my bulbs are growing in the open garden [except a few tricky onco and Juno Iris]
  cheers ,
          Otto.

[Hristo]

Hi Otto,
A pleasure, I was checking the Liden and Zetterlund monograph on corydalis, interestingly they don't mention Afghanistan for C.maracandica so I would hold this ID as being provisional, maybe the range of C.maracandica extends further than Uzbekistan?
Regards
Chris