Typification of the name Iris sanguinea (Iridaceae)

EUGENY V. BOLTENKOV

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.345.2.10

Issue: Vol. 345 No. 2: 23 March 2018

Type: Correspondence

Published: 2018-03-23

DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.345.2.10

Page range: 175–178

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**Typification of the name Iris sanguinea (Iridaceae)**

EUGENY V. BOLTENKOV⁺⁻

Botanical Garden-Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Makovskogo 142, 690024 Vladivostok, Russian Federation & Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Prof. Popova 2, 197376 St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

Monocots Asparagales Iridaceae

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Abstract

The genus Iris Linnaeus (1753: 38), when considered in a wide sense (Mathew 1989, Goldblatt et al. 2008), was established with a total of eighteen species. Presently, it comprises approximately 225 species (Goldblatt et al. 1998), distributed mostly in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.