Taxonavigation

Familia: Iridaceae
Subfamilia: Iridoideae
Tribus: Irideae
Genera: Bobartia – Dietes – Ferraria – Iris – Moraea

Name

Irideae Kitt. (1840)

• Type genus: Iris L.
  

Note: If the proposals made by Crespo et al. (2015) are accepted then this tribe will be considerably expanded. However, until this happens Wikispecies will maintain the conservative approach adopted here.

References

• Kittel, B.M. in Richard, A. 1840. Nouv. Elém. Bot., ed. 3, Germ. transl.: 736.

References

• Crespo, M.B., Martínez-Azorín, 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(1): 1–78. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.232.1.1 Reference page. 
• Goldblatt, P., Rodriguez, A., Powell, M.P., Davies, T. J., Manning, J. C., Van der Bank, M. & Savolainen, V. 2008. Iridaceae 'Out of Australasia'? Phylogeny, biogeography, and divergence time based on plastid DNA sequences. Systematic Botany 33(3): 495–508. DOI: 10.1600/036364408785679806 Full text PDF Reference page. 
• USDA: GRIN Taxonomy for Plants (24 March 2006)

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