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Iris is a flowering plant genus of 310 accepted species [1] with showy flowers.As well as being the scientific name, iris is also widely used as a common name for all Iris species, as well as some belonging to other closely related genera.
Iris versicolor or Iris versicolour is also commonly known as the blue flag, harlequin blueflag, larger blue flag, northern blue flag, [2] and poison flag, plus other variations of these names, [3] [4] and in Great Britain and Ireland as purple iris. [5] It is a species of Iris native to North America, in the Eastern United States and Eastern ...
Iris setosa, the bristle-pointed iris, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Iris of the family Iridaceae, it belongs the subgenus Limniris and the series Tripetalae.It is a rhizomatous perennial from a wide range across the Arctic sea, including Alaska, Maine, Canada (including British Columbia, Newfoundland, Quebec and Yukon), Russia (including Siberia), northeastern Asia, China ...
Iris albicans – white cemetery iris, white flag iris; Iris alexeenkoi Grossh. Iris aphylla L. – stool iris, table iris, leafless iris (including I. nudicaulis) Iris aphylla subsp. hungarica (Waldst. & Kit.) Helgi ; Iris attica (Boiss. & Heldr.) Hayek; Iris benacensis A.Kern. ex Stapf; Iris bicapitata Colas; Iris croatica – Perunika I ...
Iris ser. Syriacae is a series of the genus Iris, in Iris subg. Limniris. The series was first classified by Ludwig Diels in 'Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien' (Edited by H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl) in 1930. It was further expanded by George Hill Mathewson Lawrence in Gentes Herb (written in Dutch) in 1953. [1]
She sent specimens of the iris to Sir Michael Foster from north-eastern Asia Minor, near Lake Urumiah (in Azerbaijan). [11] The iris was first published and also described by Sir Michael Foster and John Gilbert Baker in Gardeners' Chronicle (New Series) Vol.60 on page 142 on 18 August 1888, [3] [22] as Iris barnumi. [23]
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Iris (/ ˈ aɪ r ɪ s /; EYE-riss; Ancient Greek: Ἶρις, romanized: Îris, lit. 'rainbow,' [2] [3] Ancient Greek:) is a daughter of the gods Thaumas and Electra, [4] the personification of the rainbow and messenger of the gods, a servant to the Olympians and especially Queen Hera.
It was also found that Iris purpureobractea has a complex karyology and plant morphology. [16] As most irises are diploid, having two sets of chromosomes, this can be used to identify hybrids and classification of groupings. [15]: 18 Iris purpureobractea is a diploid, [13] and has a count of 2n = 48, [2] [8] [9] It is also recorded as 2n=24,48 ...