Iris grant-duffii
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Iridaceae |
| Subfamily: | Iridoideae |
| Tribe: | Irideae |
| Genus: | Iris |
| Subgenus: | Limniris |
| Series: | Syriacae |
| Species: | Iris grant-duffii |
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Iris grant-duffii Baker |
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Iris grant-duffii is a species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus of Limniris and in the Iris series Syriacae. It is a rhizomatous perennial.
It has the common name of Grant Duff's Iris and 'Jaffa Iris'.
It has the Hebrew name of איריס הביצות. Which is "Irus ha-bitzot" - the swamp iris, which comes from its native habitat of marshy areas.
It was first found in 1864, and specimens were collected by B. T. Lowne on the banks of the river Kishon in Israel. It was later found by Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff in the plain of Esdraelon (Jezreel Valley). It was then named after him as the ex-Governor of Madras.
It was published by Baker in his book Handbook of the Irideae (Aug-Nov 1892).
It was later published in Curtis's Botanical Magazine. 124 in 1898, with a colour illustration, which was drawn from a plant flowered by W. E. Gumbleton in Queenstown in February 1897.
It was called a separate species by Brian Mathew in his book The Iris (1981) as Iris melanasticta Bornm (syn. 'Black spotted iris'); however, this is now regarded as a synonym of 'Iris grant duffii'. It is one of only two species in the Syriacea series according to Mathew.
Specimens can be found in the botanical garden of Tel Aviv University,Museum National D'historie Natrelle, and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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