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Iridaceae

Index Iridaceae

Iridaceae is a family of plants in order Asparagales, taking its name from the irises, meaning rainbow, referring to its many colours. [1]

99 relations: Afrocrocus, Afrotropical realm, Ainea, Alophia, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Aristea, Asparagales, Babiana, Biogeographic realm, Bobartia, Bulb, Calydorea, Carl Linnaeus, Chasmanthe, Chasmanthe floribunda, Cipura, Cobana, Corm, Crocoideae, Crocosmia, Crocus, Cyanixia, Cypella, Devia, Dierama, Dietes, Diplarrena, Duthiastrum, Duthieastrum, Eleutherine, Ennealophus, Ferraria, Freesia, Fynbos, Geissorhiza, Gelasine, Geosiris, Gladiolus, Gynoecium, Herbertia (plant), Hesperantha, Hesperoxiphion, Irideae, Iridoideae, Iris (plant), Iris pseudacorus, Isophysis, Ixia, Klattia, Lapeirousia, ..., Larentia (plant), Lethia umbellata, Libertia, Mariceae, Marsh, Mastigostyla, Melasphaerula, Micranthus, Moraea, Mount Olympus, Myco-heterotrophy, Nemastylis, Neomarica, Nivenia, Nivenioideae, Olsynium, Olsynium douglasii, Orthrosanthus, Paleogene, Patersonia, Perennial plant, Pillansia, Pseudotrimezia, Radinosiphon, Rainbow, Rhizome, Romulea, Saffron, Savannosiphon, Sisyrinchieae, Sisyrinchium, Solenomelus, South Africa, Sparaxis, Subfamily, Syringodea, Tapeinini, Thereianthus, Tigridia, Tigridieae, Tribe (biology), Trimezia, Tritonia (plant), Tritoniopsis, Wandflower, Watsonia (plant), Witsenia, Xenoscapa, Zygotritonia. Expand index (49 more) »

Afrocrocus

Afrocrocus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae.

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Afrotropical realm

The Afrotropical realm is one of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms.

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Ainea

Ainea is a genus of perennial, herbaceous and bulbous plants belonging to the iris family (Iridaceae), endemic from Oaxaca in Mexico.

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Alophia

Alophia is a small genus of perennial, herbaceous and bulbous plants in the iris family (Iridaceae).

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Antoine Laurent de Jussieu

Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (12 April 1748 – 17 September 1836) was a French botanist, notable as the first to publish a natural classification of flowering plants; much of his system remains in use today.

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Aristea

Aristea is a genus of evergreen, perennial and rhizomatous species of flowering plants in the iris family (Iridaceae), first described in 1789.

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Asparagales

Asparagales (asparagoid lilies) is an order of plants in modern classification systems such as the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) and the Angiosperm Phylogeny Web.

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Babiana

Babiana Ker Gawler Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607 is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae composed of about 80 recognized species.

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Biogeographic realm

A biogeographic realm or ecozone is the broadest biogeographic division of the Earth's land surface, based on distributional patterns of terrestrial organisms.

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Bobartia

Bobartia is a genus of evergreen, perennial and bulbous plants in the iris family (Iridaceae).

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Bulb

In botany, a bulb is structurally a short stem with fleshy leaves or leaf bases that function as food storage organs during dormancy.

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Calydorea

Calydorea is a small genus of perennial, herbaceous and bulbous plants in the iris family (Iridaceae) native to Mexico and South America.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.

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Chasmanthe

Chasmanthe is a genus of flowering plants in the iris family, first described in 1932.

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Chasmanthe floribunda

Chasmanthe floribunda is a species of flowering plants in the iris family which is known by the common name African flag.

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Cipura

Cipura is a genus of perennial, herbaceous and bulbous plants in the Iris family (Iridaceae), related to the genus Cypella. The plants are widely distributed in Mexico, Central, the West Indies, and South America.

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Cobana

Cobana is a genus of herbaceous, perennial and bulbous plants in the Iris family (Iridaceae).

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Corm

A corm, bulbo-tuber, or bulbotuber is a short, vertical, swollen underground plant stem that serves as a storage organ used by some plants to survive winter or other adverse conditions such as summer drought and heat (perennation).

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Crocoideae

Crocoideae is one of the major subfamilies in the Iridaceae family.

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Crocosmia

Crocosmia (J. E. Planchon, 1851) (montbretia) is a small genus of flowering plants in the iris family, Iridaceae.

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Crocus

Crocus (English plural: crocuses or croci) is a genus of flowering plants in the iris family comprising 90 species of perennials growing from corms.

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Cyanixia

Cyanixia is a genus of plants in the Iridaceae, first described in 2003.

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Cypella

Cypella is a genus of herbaceous, perennial and bulbous plants in the Iris family (Iridaceae).

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Devia

Devia is a genus of Iridaceae first described in 1990.

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Dierama

Dierama, is a genus of flowering plants in the iris family, Iridaceae.

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Dietes

Dietes is a genus of rhizomatous plants of the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1866.

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Diplarrena

Diplarrena is a genus of flowering plants in the iris family, Iridaceae.

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Duthiastrum

Duthiastrum is a genus of plans in the Iridaceae.

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Duthieastrum

Duthieastrum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae.

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Eleutherine

Eleutherine is a genus of herbaceous, perennial and bulbous plants in the Iris family (Iridaceae), first described as a genus in 1843.

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Ennealophus

Ennealophus is a genus of perennial, herbaceous and bulbous plants in the Iris family (Iridaceae).

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Ferraria

Ferraria is a genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, native to tropical and southern Africa.

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Freesia

Freesia is a genus of herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1866 by Chr.

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Fynbos

Fynbos (meaning fine-leaved plants) is a small belt of natural shrubland or heathland vegetation located in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa.

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Geissorhiza

Geissorhiza is a genus with 103 species described to date of deciduous perennial flowering plants in the iris family first described as a genus in 1803.

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Gelasine

Gelasine is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first described in 1840.

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Geosiris

Geosiris is a genus in the Iridaceae family of flowering plants, first described as a genus in 1894.

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Gladiolus

Gladiolus (from Latin, the diminutive of gladius, a sword) is a genus of perennial cormous flowering plants in the iris family (Iridaceae).

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Gynoecium

Gynoecium (from Ancient Greek γυνή, gyne, meaning woman, and οἶκος, oikos, meaning house) is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds.

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Herbertia (plant)

Herbertia is a small genus of herbaceous, perennial and bulbous plants in the Iris family (Iridaceae).

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Hesperantha

Hesperantha is a genus of cormous flowering plants in the family Iridaceae.

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Hesperoxiphion

Hesperoxiphion is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1877.

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Irideae

Irideae is a tribe included in the well-known Iridaceae family.

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Iridoideae

Iridoideae is one of the two main subfamilies in the popular Iridaceae family.

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Iris (plant)

Iris is a genus of 260–300 species of flowering plants with showy flowers.

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Iris pseudacorus

Iris pseudacorus (yellow flag, yellow iris, water flag) is a species of flowering plant of the family Iridaceae.

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Isophysis

Isophysis is a genus of herbaceous, perennial and rhizomatous plants in the Iris family (Iridaceae).

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Ixia

The genus Ixia consists of a number of cormous plants native to South Africa from the Iridaceae family and Ixioideae subfamily.

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Klattia

Klattia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae first described as a genus in 1877.

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Lapeirousia

Lapeirousia is a genus in the plant family Iridaceae.

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Larentia (plant)

Larentia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1882.

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Lethia umbellata

Lethia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1986.

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Libertia

Libertia is a genus of monocotyledenous plants in the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1824.

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Mariceae

Mariceae is a tribe included in the Iridaceae family, Iridoideae subfamily.

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Marsh

A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species.

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Mastigostyla

Mastigostyla is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1928.

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Melasphaerula

Melasphaerula is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1803.

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Micranthus

Micranthus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae.

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Moraea

Moraea, the Cape tulips, is a genus of plants in the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1758.

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Mount Olympus

Mount Olympus (Όλυμπος Olympos, for Modern Greek also transliterated Olimbos, or) is the highest mountain in Greece.

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Myco-heterotrophy

Myco-heterotrophy (from Greek μύκης mykes, "fungus", ἕτερος heteros, "another", "different" and τροφή trophe, "nutrition") is a symbiotic relationship between certain kinds of plants and fungi, in which the plant gets all or part of its food from parasitism upon fungi rather than from photosynthesis.

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Nemastylis

Nemastylis, pleatleaf, is a genus of flowering plants in the iris family, first described as a genus in 1835.

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Neomarica

Neomarica (walking iris, apostle's iris or apostle plant – names also used for the related genus Trimezia) is a genus of plants in family Iridaceae, first described in 1928.

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Nivenia

Nivenia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae first described as a genus in 1808.

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Nivenioideae

Nivenioideae is a subfamily of flowering plants and one of the two main subfamilies in the popular Iridaceae family.

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Olsynium

Olsynium (huilmo in Chile; formerly part of Sisyrinchium) is a genus of summer-dormant rhizomatous perennial flowering plants in the iris family Iridaceae, native to sunny hillsides in South America and western North America.

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Olsynium douglasii

Olsynium douglasii (syn. Sisyrinchium douglasii, Sisyrinchium grandiflorum) is a flowering plant, commonly known as Douglas' olsynium, Douglas' grasswidow, grasswidow, blue-eyed grass, purple-eyed-grass, or satin flower, in the genus Olsynium, native to western North America from southern British Columbia south to northern California, and east to northwest Utah.

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Orthrosanthus

Orthrosanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae first described as a genus in 1827.

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Paleogene

The Paleogene (also spelled Palaeogene or Palæogene; informally Lower Tertiary or Early Tertiary) is a geologic period and system that spans 43 million years from the end of the Cretaceous Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Neogene Period Mya.

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Patersonia

Patersonia is a genus of flowering plants in the Iridaceae commonly known as native iris or native flag.

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Perennial plant

A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years.

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Pillansia

Pillansia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1914.

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Pseudotrimezia

Pseudotrimezia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae first described as a genus in 1945.

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Radinosiphon

Radinosiphon is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae first described as a genus in 1932.

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Rainbow

A rainbow is a meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky.

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Rhizome

In botany and dendrology, a rhizome (from script "mass of roots", from rhizóō "cause to strike root") is a modified subterranean stem of a plant that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes.

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Romulea

Romulea is a genus of flowering plants in the iris family, first described as a genus in 1772.

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Saffron

Saffron (pronounced or) is a spice derived from the flower of Crocus sativus, commonly known as the "saffron crocus".

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Savannosiphon

Savannosiphon is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first described as a new species in 1980.

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Sisyrinchieae

Sisyrinchieae is the second largest tribe in the Iridoideae subfamily.

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Sisyrinchium

Sisyrinchium is a large genus of annual to perennial plants of the iris family, native to the New World, whose species are known as blue-eyed grasses.

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Solenomelus

Solenomelus is a genus of South American (Argentina + Chile) species of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Sparaxis

Sparaxis (harlequin flower) is a genus in the family Iridaceae with about 13 species endemic to Cape Province, South Africa.

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Subfamily

In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: subfamilia, plural subfamiliae) is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus.

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Syringodea

Syringodea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1873.

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Tapeinini

Tapeinini is a tribe of longhorn beetles of the Lamiinae subfamily.

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Thereianthus

Thereianthus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1941.

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Tigridia

Tigridia, the peacock flowers, tiger-flowers or shell flowers, is a genus of bulbous or cormous plants, belonging to the family Iridaceae.

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Tigridieae

The tribe Tigridieae is the largest from the Iridoideae subfamily and included in the Iridaceae family.

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Tribe (biology)

In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank above genus, but below family and subfamily.

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Trimezia

Trimezia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, native to the warmer parts of southern Mexico, Central America, South America, Florida, and the West Indies.

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Tritonia (plant)

Tritonia (flame freesia) is a genus of flowering plants in the iris family first described as a genus in 1802.

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Tritoniopsis

Tritoniopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1926.

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Wandflower

Wandflower is a common name for several plants and may refer to.

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Watsonia (plant)

Watsonia (bugle lily) is a genus of plants in the iris family, subfamily Crocoideae.

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Witsenia

Witsenia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1782.

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Xenoscapa

Xenoscapa is a genus of herbaceous, perennial and bulbous plants in the Iris family (Iridaceae).

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Zygotritonia

Zygotritonia is a genus of herbaceous, perennial and bulbous plants in the Iris family (Iridaceae).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridaceae

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