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Iridaceae

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Iridaceae

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Also known as iris family, irises

Iridaceae () is a family of plants in order Asparagales, taking its name from the irises. It has a nearly global distribution, with 69 accepted genera with a total of about 2500 species. It includes a number of economically important cultivated plants, such as species of Freesia, Gladiolus, and Crocus, as well as the crop saffron.

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Iridaceae is a family of plants within the kingdom Plantae. It belongs to the phylum Tracheophyta and the order Asparagales. Classification records list it under the class Liliopsida, while another source identifies the class as Magnoliopsida. The taxon is accepted under the authority Juss. and has existed for about 60 million years.

Records indicate a freshwater habitat. Occurrence data totals 2,095,446 entries. In Mexico, 1,717 records are held by institutions including CICY, FC-UNAM, STDOM, INECOL, and IBUNAM, accompanied by 797 media files.

Synthesized by Vinony from 34 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, GBIF, PubMed, Gbif Occ, Plants of the World, WoRMS, iDigBio, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Species

Iridaceae

FAMILY

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassLiliopsida
  4. OrderAsparagales
  5. FamilyIridaceae
Habitatfreshwater
Observations recorded2,095,446

General: Number of genera: The Iridaceae comprises about 67 genera Appearance: Key differences from similar families: Iridaceae differs

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
1,717
With media
797
Family
Iridaceae
Collections
CICY, FC-UNAM, STDOM, INECOL, IBUNAM, IIB-UV
Recorded in
Mexico
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Research

2,091 papers

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Subclass of
flowering plant
Image
Babiana sambucina 1.jpg
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taxon common name
Iris Family
Commons category
Iridaceae
taxon rank
family
taxon name
Iridaceae
topic's main category
Category:Iridaceae
GRIN URL
npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomyfamily.aspx?id=584
has fruit type
capsule
taxonomic type
Iris
start time
60000000-0
described by source
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Montana Plant Life URL
montana.plant-life.org/cgi-bin/family03.cgi?Iridaceae
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Encyclopedic overview

9 sections
Contents
  • Etymology
  • Taxonomy
  • Crocoideae
  • Isophysidoideae
  • Nivenioideae and allies
  • Iridoideae
  • Ecology
  • List of genera
  • References

Iridaceae () is a family of plants in order Asparagales, taking its name from the irises. It has a nearly global distribution, with 69 accepted genera with a total of about 2500 species. It includes a number of economically important cultivated plants, such as species of Freesia, Gladiolus, and Crocus, as well as the crop saffron.

Members of this family are perennial plants, with a bulb, corm or rhizome. The plants grow erect, and have leaves that are generally grass-like, with a sharp central fold. Some examples of members of this family are the blue flag and yellow flag.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Iridaceae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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