Iridaceae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Iridaceae
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Iridaceae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Iridaceae
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.
...Iridaceae in languages:
- Belarusian
- Касачовыя
- Bokmål
- sverdliljefamilien
- Bulgarian
- Перуникови
- Catalan
- iridàcies
- Chinese
- 鳶尾科
- Croatian
- perunike
- Czech
- kosatcovité
- Danish
- Irisfamilien
- English
- irises and allies
- English
- iris family
- Estonian
- võhumõõgalised
- Finnish
- kurjenmiekkakasvit
- French
- Iridées
- German
- Schwertliliengewächse
- Hungarian
- nősziromfélék
- Italian
- Iridacee
- Japanese
- アヤメ科
- Korean
- 붓꽃과
- Modern Greek
- Ιριδοειδή
- Modern Greek
- Ιριδίδες
- Polish
- Kosaćcowate
- Portuguese
- íris e afins
- Russian
- Ирисовые
- Russian
- Касатиковые
- Swedish
- irisväxter
- Thai
- วงศ์ ว่านหางช้าง
- Turkish
- Süsengiller
- Ukrainian
- Півникові
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