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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Iridaceae

Iridaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

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A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Iridaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .

Statistics

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

The Plant List includes 7,147 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Iridaceae. Of these 2,315 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,757 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 7,147 species names for the family Iridaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,315	32.4%
◕	Synonym	4,512	63.1%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.0%
◕	Unassessed	319	4.5%

All names

The status of the 8,904 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Iridaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,456	27.6%
◕	Synonym	6,121	68.7%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.0%
◕	Unassessed	326	3.7%

Of the species names,

194 are recorded as invalid
430 are recorded as illegitimate
16 are recorded as a spelling variant

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

The confidence with which the status of the 7,147 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Iridaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	2,218	4,398	0	0	6,616	92.6%
Medium confidence	95	89	0	0	184	2.6%
Low confidence	2	25	1	319	347	4.9%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the family Iridaceae is as follows:

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
iPlants	2,220	4,415	0	187	7	6,822	95.5%
TICA	0	0	0	2	0	2	0.0%
Tropicos	95	90	0	102	0	287	4.0%
WCSP	0	7	0	0	0	7	0.1%
WCSP (in review)	0	0	1	28	0	29	0.4%