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Vernacular names of plants within the Subfamily Iridoideae

Hierarchical position of the Subfamily Iridoideae

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Liliopsida Brongn. pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843. common name: Monocots       Subclassis  Liliidae J.H. Schaffn. pub. Ohio Naturalist 11: 413. Dec 1911.       SuperOrdo  Lilianae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 473. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Iridales Raf. pub. 1815       Subordo  Iridineae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 94. Mai 1898.       Familia  Iridaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 57. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Irises       Subfamilia  Iridoideae Eaton pub. Bot. Dict., ed. 4: 28. Apr-Mai 1836.

Named members of the Subfamily Iridoideae

1	Tribus  Irideae Kitt. pub. Nouv. El�m. Bot., ed. 3, Germ. transl.: 736. 1840.
	2    Subtribus  Iridinae Pax in Engl. & Prantl pub. Nat. Pflanzenfam. II, 5: 144. Sep 1887.      3    Genus  Iris L. pub. (1753) common name: iris

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

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