Iris L.
Details
Biostatus
Nomenclature
L.
L.
1753
38-40
ICN
Iris L.
genus
Iris
Classification
Subordinates
- Iris bicolor
- Iris bicolor
- Iris bucharica
- Iris danfordiae
- Iris 'Darjeeling'
- Iris ensata
- Iris foetidissima
- Iris germanica
- Iris histrio
- Iris innominata
- Iris japonica
- Iris laevigata
- Iris latifolia
- Iris monnieri
- Iris orientalis
- Iris pallida
- Iris polystachya
- Iris pseudacorus
- Iris reticulata
- Iris robinsoniana
- Iris setifolia
- Iris sibirica
- Iris sofarana
- Iris spathulata
- Iris spuria
- Iris susiana
- Iris tingitana
- Iris tripetala
- Iris unguicularis
- Iris villosa
- Iris wattii
- Iris xiphium
Synonyms
Descriptions
Iris L.
Evergreen perennial, with rhizomes (sympodial), or bulbous. Leaves equitant, ensiform, distichous. Cyme shortly branched, few-flowered. Flowers pedicellate, large and showy, blue, violet, white or yellow, in clusters of 2 or more, (or solitary), terminal flowers within 2 spathe-valves, lateral within a single valve; tube bright green, usually short; segments (each consisting of broader "limb" and narrow basal "claw" or "haft") in 2 whorls; 3 outer (falls), usually reflexed or spreading, 3 inner (standards), usually erect and often incurved, or spreading. Stamens 3, inserted at base of outer segments. Style-branches broad, petaloid, ± deeply bifid at tip, curved over stamens and concealing them, stigma a small flap situated on underside of petaloid style-branch just below bifid "crest". Capsule coriaceous, ovoid-oblong. Seeds many, globular, ± compressed. Spp. c. 300, from temperate regions of N. Hemisphere. Adventive spp. 5.
Taxonomic concepts
Historic biostatus
Collections
Metadata
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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
15 September 2008