Iris munzii

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Species of flowering plant

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::summary Species of flowering plant ::

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Iris munzii is a species of iris which is endemic to the Sierra Nevada foothills of Tulare County, California, mostly in the vicinity of the Tule River. It is quite rare in the wild. Its common names include Tulare lavender iris and Munz's iris. Its flowers grow in inflorescences of three to four per stem, and are usually lighter shades of purple and blue with darker veining. Albinos are known.

Taxonomy

It was first published and described by Robert Crichton Foster in his book 'Iridis Species Novae' (published in Cambridge, Massachusetts) on page 2 in 1938.

The Latin specific epithet munzii is in honour of the American botanist Philip A. Munz.

Iris munzii is a tentatively accepted name by the Royal Horticultural Society in the UK, and was last listed in the RHS Plant Finder in 2000. It was verified by United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service on 4 April 2003.

Distribution and habitat

It is native to the temperate region of Northern America.

Range

It is found in California.

Habitat

It is found growing on dry to moist partially wooded slopes and rarely along stream banks. At elevations of 305 to above sea level.

References

Other sources

  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America. URL: http://floranorthamerica.org/Main_Page
  • Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California
  • Mathew, B. 1981. The Iris. 98.

References

  1. "NatureServe Explorer 2.0".
  2. "''Iris munzii'' R.C.Foster {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science".
  3. "''Iris munzii'' {{!}} International Plant Names Index".
  4. . ["Munz, Philip Alexander (1892-1974)"](https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000005902). *Ithaka*.
  5. (1959). "Hybridization and Speciation in the Pacific Coast Irises". Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany.
  6. "''Iris munzii'' {{!}} /RHS Gardening".
  7. "''Iris munzii'' R. C. Foster GRIN-Global".

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