Tulipa zenaidae Vved., Byull. Sredne-Aziatsk. Gosud. Univ. 21: 150 (1935). Fig. 46 Type. Kyrgyzstan • ‘ Habitat in montibus Alexandricis (Tian-Shan) ’, 14 June 1932, Vvedensky 280 (TASH). General distribution. Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan (Sennikov and Tojibaev 2021). Distribution in Kazakhstan and habitat. Kyrgyz Alatau. This species grows in fine earth and gravelly slopes, usually with thickets of bushes, in the lower mountain belt. Conservation status. Tulipa zenaidae is a vulnerable species at the global level (IUCN 2024); it is included in the Red Book of Kazakhstan (Category II). Phenology. Flowering in April – May; fruiting May – July. Notes. Tulipa zenaidae was described by A. I. Vvedensky in 1935 from Kyrgyz Ridge (Mount Shekule). The species was named in honor of Zinaida Botschantzeva, who devoted her life to studying Central Asian tulips (Ivashchenko and Belyalov 2019). According to the latest classification, this species was assigned the synonym of T. lehmanniana (Christenhusz et al. 2013; Everett et al. 2013). Wilson (2023) later confirmed that T. zenaidae is a different species from T. lehmanniana which we agree with in this study.

Published as part of Kubentayev, Serik A., Baasanmunkh, Shukherdorj, Alibekov, Daniyar T., Tojibaev, Komiljon Sh., Nyamgerel, Nudkhuu, Ivashchenko, Anna A., Tsegmed, Zagarjav, Epiktetov, Vladimir G., Sitpayeva, Gulnara T., Izbastina, Klara S., Idrissova, Zhansaya T., Mukhtubayeva, Saule K., Abubakirova, Nurganym B., Gil, Hee-Young & Choi, Hyeok Jae, 2024, Revisiting the genus Tulipa (Liliaceae) in Kazakhstan, the country with the richest tulip diversity worldwide, pp. 95-163 in PhytoKeys 250 on pages 95-163, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.250.136736