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Dietes robinsoniana; photograph (c) Leon Perrie, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Leon Perrie, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2023-09-22

Dietes robinsoniana (F.Muell.) Klatt

Wedding-lily; Lord Howe wedding lily; Lowe Howe wedding iris

Iridaceae · Norfolk Is. · listed by its family as a bulb, tuber or caudex

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Summary

Dietes robinsoniana, the Lord Howe wedding lily, is found naturally only on Lord Howe Island, Australia. It grows on cliff faces, often in exposed locations. It is also Found on forest margins and the tops of Mount Gower and Mount Lidgbird and behind the beaches on Lord Howe Island. It is one of the world's most intriguing and remarkable biogeographic disjunctions, with its nearest phylogenetic relatives occurring in Africa.

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About the genus · Dietes

Dietes is a genus of six rhizomatous plant species of the iris family Iridaceae, first described collectively in 1866. Common names for the different species include wood iris, fortnight lily, African iris, Japanese iris and butterfly iris. Globally, these common names may differ from region to region, and may also apply to one or more species within Dietes.

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Cultivation

Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex, listed under the family Iridaceae in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “perennial or rhizomatous geophyte”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the family Iridaceae in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “perennial or rhizomatous geophyte”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km (1 at sea or ice); three are needed for an envelope. 1 of the 21 in-range records is placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though it counts for the map and its marker.

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.
NativeNorfolk Is. · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-31.567, 159.083 · in the densest population, 21 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“perennial or rhizomatous geophyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 21 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 15 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 13 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 1 in-range record is placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stays on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 21 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Leon Perrie, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) naturewatchwidow, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) dhfischer, some rights reserved (CC BY); Poyt448 Peter Woodard, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons; Quartl, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Dietes 5 in the reference

Dietes bicolor Dietes bicolor African Iris Photo: CC BY, Diogo LuizDietes butcheriana Dietes butcheriana Forest Iris Photo: CC BY, Sunčana BradleyDietes flavida Dietes flavida Yellow Wood Iris Photo: CC BY-SA, Matti BlumeDietes grandiflora Dietes grandiflora Wild iris Photo: CC BY, J. SayersDietes iridioides Dietes iridioides Painted Lady Photo: CC BY, Shaun Swanepoel

Names & registers

Also known as Iris robinsoniana; Moraea robinsoniana. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Iridaceae
Described by
(F.Muell.) Klatt
Native to
Norfolk Is.
Wild records
21 in range · 15 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 6 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (6 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km (1 at sea or ice); three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 8 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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