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I'm growing it for more than 40 years, It always formed only branch-like tubers. On picture (in article) are tubers of pot grown plants and even those are around 40 mm long and thin, but those in garden are even longer, but difficult to get out without breaking. Pot grown plants are well fed, so they are thicker, too, comparing with those grown in "wild-like" conditions. Round tubers has Anemone blanda and hybrids, but all this is mentioned in publication.

Actually I always was surprised why no one published it before me. The differences are so clear and well expressed. For me it was not so easy to prepare this paper as I'm working on crocuses, but after publishing of my monograph "The World of Crocuses" (568 p., ~1700 colour pictures, 235 species described in details) I had some free time and needed some rest out of crocuses, so started to work on new taxa gathered during my gardening life (60 years) from other genera.

Even in cultivation Anemone banketovii keeps the shape of tuber for years and always resembles branches (thicker or thinner - not so important), regardless - replanted every year or grown untouched for several yerars. I'm growing it since 80-ies of last century and from the very start regarded it as different from A. blanda (at first by its isolated area, in this following Yuzepchuk) and my opinion was confirmed when I got authentic A. blanda from Turkey. There are many plants (Crocus, many Tulipa etc.) where you can identify species only after checking of underground parts. In Gagea you must to check seedlings and their development for correct identification of species etc. So, yes, if you don't know origin of your plant and want to identify it - you must dig it out and check tuber, corm, bulb tunics, cataphylls etc. etc.
Serious botanists are making herbariums from typical plants, not selecting aberrations from normal. Herbarium is type specimen, characterising species, its etalon!
Some Red Data books were cited from Plantarium and there could be mistakes in authors, I agree with this. It is quite difficult to get now originals of post-soviet Russian literature here, especially being retired and living far from cities.