Classification of Iris 1914 William Rikatson Dykes.

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In 1914 Dykes was only aware of roughly half the species of Iris we know today. Dykes divided the Genus into the following 12 Sections, and listed are the species he knew:

• 1. Section Apogon (divided into 15 groups);
  • I.The sibirica group:
    • Iris sibirica , Iris orientalis(now called I. sanguinea), Iris delavayi , Iris wilsoni , Iris forestii , Iris chrysographes , Iris clarkei , Iris bulleyana , Iris prismatica .
  • II. The tenuifolia group:
    • Iris tenuifolia , Iris bungei , Iris ventricosa
  • III. The Californian group:
    • Iris douglasiana , Iris tenuis , Iris bracteata , Iris tenax , Iris hartwegii , Iris purdyi , Iris macrosiphon , Iris tenuissima
  • IV. The Syrian group:Iris grant-duffi,
  • V. The Chinese group:
    • Iris grijsii , Iris rossii , Iris minuta (now known as I. minutoaurea), Iris henryi
  • VI. The scarlet seeded group: Iris foetidissima
  • VII. Iris ruthenica
  • VIII. Iris unguicularis
  • IX. The spuria group:
    • Iris Spuria, Iris ochroleuca (now I. orientalis), Iris monnieri , Iris aurea , Iris graminea , Iris humilis (now Iris pontica), Iris sintenisii , Iris kerneriana, Iris songarica
  • X. The laevigata group:
    • Iris laevigata , Iris kaempferi (now Iris ensata), Iris pseudacorus, Iris versicolor
  • XI. The hexagona group:
    • Iris hexagona , Iris foliosa (now I. brevicaulis), Iris fulva .
  • XII. Iris ensata (today known as Iris lactea)
  • XIII.The longipetala group:
    • Iris longipetala , Iris missouriensis , Iris montana
  • XIV. The tripetalous group:
    • Iris setosa , Iris tripetala, (now I. tridentata)
  • XV. Iris verna
• 2. Section Pardanthopsis: Iris dichotoma
• 3. Section Evansia: Iris japonica, Iris milesii,
• 4. Section Oncocyclus:
  • Iris paradoxa, Iris iberica, Iris ewbankiana, Iris acutiloba, Iris sari, Iris barnumae, Iris meda, Iris gatesii, Iris lortetii, Iris bismarkiana, Iris susiana, Iris sofarana, Iris atrofusca, Iris atropurpurea, Iris maculata. Iris demawendica,
• 5. Section Regelia:
  • Iris korolkowi, Iris stolonifera, Iris darwasica, Iris falcifolia.
• 6. Section Pseudoregelia
  • Iris kumaonensis, Iris hookeriana, Iris goniocarpa, Iris sikkimensis.
• 7. Section Pogoniris:
  • 1. The flavissima Group: Iris flavissima, Iris bloudowii, Iris mandshurica.
  • 2. The dwarf European Pogoniris: Iris pumila, Iris subbiflora, Iris pseudopumila, Iris chamaeiris, now I. lutescens, Iris mellita, now I. suaveolens, Iris reichenbachii.
  • 3. The dwarf Pogoniris of Northern and Eastern Central Asia: Iris tigridia, Iris potanini.
  • 4 The larger European Pogoniris: Iris aphylla , Iris variegata, Iris albicans, Iris germanica, Iris pallida, Iris cengialti. Iris amoena, Iris kochii, Iris lurida, Iris neglecta, Iris sambucina, Iris squalens, Iris corygeii, Iris Junonia, Iris biliotti, Iris trojana, Iris mesopotamica, Iris cypriana
    
  • 5. The Oriental Pogoniris: Iris scariosa , Iris imbricata , Iris alberti .
  • 6. The Indian Pogoniris Group: Iris kashmiriana , Iris griffithii
• 8. Section Nepalensis;
  • Iris nepalensis, Iris collettii
• 9. Section Juno
• 10. Section Xiphium
• 11. Section Reticulata
• 12. Section Gynandriris

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-- BobPries - 2012-01-13