Iridaceae Juss.

First published in Gen. Pl. [Jussieu] 57. 1789 [4 Aug 1789] (1789)nom. cons.
This family is accepted

Accepted Genera

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • APG IV (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/boj.12385

The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook

  • Goldblatt, P. & Manning, J. C. (2008). The Iris family: Natural History and Classification. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon.
  • Goldblatt, P. (1993). Iridaceae. In: G. V. Pope (ed.), Flora Zambesiaca 12 (4). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Goldblatt, P. (1996). Iridaceae. In: R. M. Polhill (ed.). Flora of Tropical East Africa. Balkema, Rotterdam.
  • Goldblatt, P. (1998). Iridaceae. In: K. Kubitzki (ed.), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 3: 295–333. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Neotropikey

  • "Klatt, F.W. (1871). ""Iridae"". In: C.F.P. Martius (ed.). Flora Brasiliensis vol. 3(1), pp. 510-548. Verlag von J. Cramer. Weinheim."
  • APG II, (2003). An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 141(4): 399-436.
  • Chukr, N.S. & Giulietti, A.M. (2003). Revisão de Pseudotrimezia Foster (Iridaceae). Sitientibus, série Ciências Biológicas 3(1-2): 44-80.
  • Chukr, N.S. & Giulietti, A.M. (2008). Revisão de Trimezia Salisb. ex Herb. para o Brasil.Sitientibus, série Ciências Biológicas 8(1): 15-58. Foster, R.C. (1945). Studies in the Iridaceae III. Cont. Gray Harv. Univ. 155: 3-55.
  • Gil, A.S.B., Chukr, N.S., Giulietti, A.M. & Amaral, M.C. (2008). Pseudiris speciosa, a new genus and species of Trimezieae (Iridioideae, Iridaceae) from Chapada Diamantina, Brazil. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, ser. 4, vol. 59(19): 723-729.
  • Goldblatt, P. & Henrich, J.E. (1987). Notes on Cipura (Iridaceae) in South and Central America and a new species from Venezuela. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 74: 333-340.
  • Goldblatt, P. & Henrich, J.E. (1991). Calydorea Herbert (Iridaceae - Tigrideae): notes on this New World genus and reduction to synonymy of Salpingostylis, Cardiostigma, Itysa and Catyla. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 78: 504-511
  • Goldblatt, P. & Henrich, J.E. (1999). Iridaceae. In: J.A. Steyermark, P.E. Berry, K. Yatskievych and B.K. Holst (eds.). Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana vol. 5, pp. 658-664. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis
  • Goldblatt, P. & Howard, T.M. (1992). Notes on Alophia (Iridaceae) and New species, A. veracruzana, from Vera Cruz, Mexico. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 79: 901-905.
  • Goldblatt, P. & Manning, J.C. (2008). The Iris family: the natural history and classification, 290 pp. Timber Press, London.
  • Goldblatt, P. & Snow, N. (1991). Systematics and cromosome citology of Eleutherine Herbert (Iridaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 78: 942-949.
  • Goldblatt, P. (1990). Phylogeny and classification of Iridaceae. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 77(4): 607-627.
  • Goldblatt, P., Manning, J.C. & Rudall, P. (1998). Iridaceae. In: K. Kubitzki (ed.). The families and genera of vascular plants IV, pp. 295-333. Springer Verlag, Berlin.
  • Hutchinson, J. (1973). The families of flowering plants. III. Monocotyledones. 3a ed. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
  • Ravenna, P.F. (1981). The tribe Trimezieae of the Iridaceae. Wrightia 7(1): 12.
  • Ravenna, P.F. (1986). Itysa and Lethia, two new genera of neotropical Iridaceae. Nord. J. Bot. 6: 581-588.
  • Ravenna, P.F. (1988)a. New species and miscellaneous notes in the genus Trimezia (Iridaceae) - II. Onira 1(1): 1-15.
  • Ravenna, P.F. (1988)b. New species and miscellaneous notes in the genus Pseudotrimezia (Iridaceae) - I. Onira 1(7): 48-52.
  • Reeves, G., Chase, M.W., Goldblatt, P. Rudall, P. Fay, M.F., Cox, A.V., Lejeune, B. & Souza-Chies, T. (2001). Molecular systematics of Iridaceae: evidence from four plastid DNA regions. American Journal of Botany 88(11):2074-2087.
  • Souza-Chies, T.T., Bittar, G., Nadot, S., Carter, L., Besin, E. & Lejeune, B. (1997). Phylogenetic analysis of Iridaceae with parsimony and distance methods using the plastid gene rps4. Plant Systematics and Evolution 204(1-2): 109-123.
  • Sprague, T.A. (1928). Marica and Neomarica. Bull. Misc. Inf. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1928): 278-281.
  • Stevens, P. F. (2008). Iridaceae. In: Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 9. http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/apweb/orders/asparagalesweb.htm#Iridaceae. Accessed 22 August (2011).

The Kew Temperate Plant Families Identification Handbook

  • Avila, N. S. (2012). Neotropical Iridaceae. In: W. Milliken, B. Klitgaard & A. Baracat, Neotropikey—Interactive Key and Information Resources for Flowering Plants of the Neotropics. www.kew.org/science/tropamerica/neotropikey/families/Iridaceae.htm.
  • Goldblatt, P. & Manning, J. C. (2008). The Iris Family. Timber Press, Portland.
  • Goldblatt, P. (1993). Iridaceae. In: G. V. Pope (ed.), Flora Zambesiaca 12: 4. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Goldblatt, P. (1996). Iridaceae. In: R. M. Polhill (ed.), Flora of Tropical East Africa: 1–89. Balkema, Rotterdam.
  • Goldblatt, P. (1998). Iridaceae. In: K. Kubitzki (ed.), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, III: 295–333. Springer Verlag, Berlin & Heidelberg.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jan 1, 2012 Wood, J.R.I. [23772] Bolivia K000524374 Yes
May 12, 2008 Wood, J.R.I. [23799] Bolivia K000524373 Yes
Aug 11, 1970 Oldfield [s.n.] Australia K000802545 Lectotype Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Australia K000802551 Unknown Type Material Yes
Mucaleque, P.; Osborne, J.; Banze, A.; Maoji, S.O. (guide) [PM39] Mozambique K001346885 No
Jackson [s.n.] Australia K000802553 Syntype Yes
Laurence [319] Australia K000802549 Unknown Type Material Yes
de Malahide, T. Australia K:SPC-32818.000 No
Mueller, F. [s.n.] Australia K000802556 Unknown Type Material Yes
s.coll. [35] Australia K000802555 Unknown Type Material Yes
Rico, L.; Windsor-Shaw, T.; Lopez, R.; Rodriguez, N. [1214] Bolivia K000295061 No
Gunn [270] Australia K000802548 Unknown Type Material Yes
Foster [s.n.] Australia K000802542 Unknown Type Material Yes
Gunn [s.n.] Australia K000802550 Unknown Type Material Yes
Oldfield [s.n.] Australia K000802546 Unknown Type Material Yes
Brown, R. [5617] Australia K000802547 Lectotype Yes
Gunn [1378] Australia K000802541 Unknown Type Material Yes
Mueller, F. [s.n.] Australia K000802552 Unknown Type Material Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Australia K000802554 Unknown Type Material Yes
Gunn [1378] Australia K000802543 Unknown Type Material Yes

Sources

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of West Tropical Africa

    • Flora of West Tropical Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Neotropikey

    • Milliken, W., Klitgard, B. and Baracat, A. (2009 onwards), Neotropikey - Interactive key and information resources for flowering plants of the Neotropics.
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • The Kew Temperate Plant Families Identification Handbook

    • The Kew Temperate Plant Families Identification Handbook
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook

    • The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0