Iridaceae Juss.
Iris L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 38 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: (not designated).
Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 24 [secondary reference]
Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 399 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 114 [secondary reference]
pro parte taxonomic synonym: Moraea Mill. nom. et orth. cons.
Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 1: 536 BHL [secondary reference]
  • Type: Iris germanica L.
Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 206 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "Greek iris, rainbow; varied colour of the flowers"
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 443 [secondary reference]
Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1213 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 21 [secondary reference]
Cooke, D.A. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1986), Iridaceae. Flora of Australia 46: 28-30 [secondary reference]
Clifford, H.T., Conran, J.G. & Thongpukdee, A. (1992), Australian Lilies: Native and Naturalised species. Australian Plants 16(132): 370 [secondary reference]
James, T.A. & Brown, E.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Iridaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 119 [secondary reference]
Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Iridaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 697 [secondary reference]
Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Iridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 405-406 [secondary reference]
Goldblatt, P. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Iridaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 3: 325 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 323 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Belamkanda Adans. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Belamcanda Adans. nom. et orth. cons.
  • APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 434-435 [secondary reference]
Soltis, D.E., Smith, S.A., Cellinese, N., Wurdack, K.J., Tank, D.C., Brockington, S.F., Refulio-Rodriguez, N.F., Walker, J.B., Moore, M.J., Carlswars, B.S., Bell, C.D., Latvis, M., Crawley, S., Black, C., Diouf, D., Xi, Z., Rushworth, C.A., Gitzendanner, M.A., Sytsma, K.J., Qui, Y., Hilu, K.W., Davis, C.C., Sanderson, M.J., Beaman, R.S., Olmstead, R.G., Judd, W.S., Donoghue, M.J. & Soltis, P.S. (1 April 2011), Angiosperm Phylogeny: 17 genes, 640 taxa. American Journal of Botany 98(4): Fig. 2B [secondary reference]
Crespo, M.B., Martinez-Azorin, M. & Mavrodiev, E.V. (2015), Can a rainbow consist of a single colour? A new comprehensive generic arrangement of the 'Iris sensu latissimo' clade (Iridaceae), congruent with morphology and molecular data. Phytotaxa 232: 51, Figs 3A, 6Q-R, 8A, 10 [secondary reference]