The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Iridaceae

The family Iridaceae is in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Iridaceae

A list of all accepted names in Iridaceae is available in CSV format.

Statistics

Species of Iridaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 80 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 6,978 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Iridaceae. Of these 2,182 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,603 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Iridaceae. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 6,978 species names for the family Iridaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
◕ Accepted 2,182 31.3%
◕ Synonym 4,510 64.6%
◕ Unplaced 0 0%
◕ Unassessed 286 4.1%

All names

The status of the 8,581 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Iridaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
◕ Accepted 2,436 28.4%
◕ Synonym 5,854 68.2%
◕ Unplaced 0 0%
◕ Unassessed 291 3.4%

Of these names,

A further 7 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 6,978 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Iridaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 2,142 4,359 0 0 6,501 93.2%
Medium confidence 32 80 0 0 112 1.6%
Low confidence 8 71 0 286 365 5.2%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the family Iridaceae, are as follows:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
iPlants 2,150 4,420 181 2 7 6,760 96.9%
Tropicos 32 83 0 76 0 191 2.7%
WCSP 0 7 0 0 0 7 0.1%
WCSP (in review) 0 0 0 27 0 27 0.4%