Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.

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Showing Iris

Iridaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Asparagales(ordo)
Iridaceae(fam.)
Iris(gen.)

Iris L.

, legitimate

, scientific

Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1

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38

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5

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24

[secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6

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399

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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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

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536

BHL

[secondary reference]

Type: Iris germanica L.

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1

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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

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443

[secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants

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1213

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

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21

[secondary reference]

Cooke, D.A. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1986), Iridaceae.

Flora of Australia

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28-30

[secondary reference]

Clifford, H.T., Conran, J.G. & Thongpukdee, A. (1992), Australian Lilies: Native and Naturalised species.

Australian Plants

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370

[secondary reference]

James, T.A. & Brown, E.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Iridaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

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119

[secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Iridaceae.

Flora of Victoria

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697

[secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Iridaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

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405-406

[secondary reference]

Goldblatt, P. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Iridaceae.

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants

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325

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1

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323

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census

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-

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

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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

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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.

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51, Figs 3A, 6Q-R, 8A, 10

[secondary reference]