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Iris pumila L (subgen. Iris sect. Iris) is widely distributed in southeastem Europe and a me ber of the dwarf bearded group. The morphological features (Ieaf, rhizome, root, pollen), along with the karyological observations (2_n_ = 36), showed that the investigated specimens be long to Iris pumila var azurea, which is a hybrid of two dwarf taxa of the section Pogoniris.