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Iris florentina, Rue de l'Eau, Dudelange, District de Luxembourg, LU no rights reserved · observed growing wild · 2024-05-08

Iris florentina L.

Iridaceae

No habitat climate 19 photographs Bulb, tuber or caudex
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Summary

Iris florentina, also known as Iris albicans, cemetery iris, white cemetery iris, or the white flag iris, is a species of iris which was planted on graves in Muslim regions and grows in many countries throughout the Middle East and northern Africa. It was later introduced to Spain, and then other European countries.

Text from Wikipedia, “Iris florentina”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

Family
Iridaceae
Described by
L.
Native to
Saudi Arabia, Yemen
Wild records
5 in range· 4 open

Also known as Iris albicans Lange; Iris albicans var. madonna (Sprenger) Dykes; Iris albicans var. majoricensis (Barceló) Nyman; Iris florentina subsp. albicans (Lange) K.Richt.; Iris florentina var. albicans (Lange) Baker and 6 more.

Cultivation

Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex by the genus Iris, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record; three are needed for an envelope.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeSaudi Arabia, Yemen· introduced: Baleares, France, Portugal, Sardegna, Spain, Bulgaria, Italy, Kriti, Romania, Sicilia, Yugoslavia, Morocco, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Turkey, West Himalaya, Alabama, Arkansas
Kew's description“rhizomatous geophyte” · “subtropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker13.52, 44.049 · in the densest population, 5 records (100% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 5 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 4 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 1108 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. Under a dozen records: treat the map as indicative. No climate envelope is derived for this species.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 5 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Louis Aureglia, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Jo Roberts, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) Emil Jantke, some rights reserved (CC BY); no rights reserved · CC0 (3).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Iris florentina, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

An Evidence-Based Review on Medicinal Plants Used as Insecticide and Insect Repellent in Traditional Iranian Medicine
Mina Cheraghi Niroumand, Mohammad Hosein Farzaei, Elahe Karimpour‐Razkenari, Gholamreza Amin (2016) · Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal
Isolation and Structure Determination of the Precursors of a-and y-Irone and Homologous Compounds from Iris pallida and Iris florentina
Wolfgang Krick, Franz‐Josef Marner, Lothar Jaenicke (1983) · Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C
Studies on the constituents of Iris florentina L. II. C-Glucosides of xanthones and flavones from the leaves.
Masao Fujita, Takao Inoué (1982) · Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin
Inhibition of Cyclic AMP Phosphodiesterase by Flavonoids
T Nikaido, Taichi Ohmoto, Ushio Sankawa, Toshinori Hamanaka (1982) · Planta Medica
Studies on Constituents of Iris Genus Plants. IV. The Constituents of Iris florentina L. (2)
Munehisa Arisawa, Naokata Morita, Yoshikazu Kondo, TSUNEMATSU TAKEMOTO (1973) · Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin
The Constituents of Iris florentina L. (3). Structure of Irisxanthone, a New C-Glycosylxanthone
Munehisa Arisawa, Naokata Morita, Yoshikazu Kondo, TSUNEMATSU TAKEMOTO (1973) · Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin
Studies on Constituents of Iris Genus Plants. III. The Constituents of Iris florentina L.(1)
Naokata Morita, Munehisa Arisawa, Yoshikazu Kondo, TSUNEMATSU TAKEMOTO (1973) · Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON MEDICINAL PROPERTIES AND USES OF IRIS SP.
Ioana Crișan, Maria Cantor (2017) · Hop and Medicinal Plants
New isoflavone glycosides from Iris florentina
Kiyoshi Tsukida, Kayoko Saiki, Masayoshi Ito (1973) · Phytochemistry
THE PHYTOCHEMICAL RICHNESS OF THE IRIDACEAE AND ITS SYSTEMATIC SIGNIFICANCE
J.B. HARBORNE, C.A. WILLIAMS (2000)
Studies on Constituents of Iris Genus Plants. VI. The Constituents of the Rhizoma of Iris florentina L. and the Constituents of the Petals of Iris japonica THUNB.
Munehisa Arisawa, Naokata Morita, Yoshikazu Kondo, Tsunematsu Takemoto (1973) · YAKUGAKU ZASSHI
What happened to Linnaeus’s Iris florentina? Re–evaluation of this taxon at species level
Giordano Martini, Daniele Viciani (2018) · Taxon

Other Iris 16 in the reference

Iris cristata crested iris Iris domestica Blackberry Lily Iris douglasiana Douglas iris Iris ensata Beaked Iris Iris foetidissima Gladdon Iris japonica Fringed Iris Iris orientalis Oriental iris Iris pallida Dalmatian iris Iris pseudacorus Flag Iris Iris reticulata golden netted iris Iris sanguinea Blood iris Iris tectorum Cockscomb-like water iris all 17 ›

History & registers

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