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Iris histrioides (G.F.Wilson) S.Arn.

Iridaceae · Turkey · listed by its genus as a bulb, tuber or caudex

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Iris histrioides, photograph (c) Adam Mark Lucas-Krol, some rights reserved (CC BY)Iris histrioides, photograph Averater, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsIris histrioides, photograph Keith Edkins, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsIris histrioides, photograph Raffi Kojian, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsIris histrioides, photograph peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsIris histrioides, photograph peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 8 photographs ›

Summary

Iris histrioides, the orchis iris, winter iris or Harput iris, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Iris, subgenus Hermodactyloides of the family Iridaceae. It is a bulbous perennial, that is native to Turkey, and has bluish scented flowers. It is cultivated as a plant for ornamental purposes in temperate regions, and has many known cultivars.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Iris histrioides", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex, listed under the genus Iris in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “tuberous 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 genus Iris in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “tuberous 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: 2 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 2 of the 2 in-range records are 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 they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeTurkey · 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).
Kew's description“tuberous geophyte” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 2 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 13 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Adam Mark Lucas-Krol, some rights reserved (CC BY); Averater, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Keith Edkins, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Raffi Kojian, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Iris 182 in the reference

Iris acutiloba Iris acutiloba Iridaceae Photo: CC0, author not stated Iris aitchisonii Iridaceae Iris alberti Iris alberti Iridaceae Photo: CC BY, Islam Galymzhanov Iris albomarginata Iridaceae Iris alexeenkoi Iris alexeenkoi Iridaceae Photo: CC BY, info.botdb.ruIris aphylla Iris aphylla Stool iris Photo: CC BY, Мирослав СоболевIris arenaria Iris arenaria Iridaceae Photo: CC BY, Oleksii VasyliukIris atropurpurea Iris atropurpurea Coastal Iris Photo: CC BY, Nachman bonesIris aucheri Iris aucheri Aucher-Eloy Iris Photo: CC BY-SA, Anas A. Emad Iris baldshuanica Iridaceae Iris barbatula Iris barbatula Iridaceae Photo: CC BY, Morten RossIris barnumiae Iris barnumiae Iridaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Mehrad Rousta all 183 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Iridodictyum histrioides; Iris reticulata var. histrioides. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Iridaceae
Described by
(G.F.Wilson) S.Arn.
Native to
Turkey
Wild records
2 in range · 2 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; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-222 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
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 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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