Iridaceae

family of plants in the order Asparagales
Taxon taxon Q155941
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Summary

Iridaceae is a taxon[1]. Iridaceae ranks in the top 0.77% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,174 views/month, #1,505 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Liliales[4], Liliiflorae[5], Epigynae[6], Iridales[7], Asparagales[8], Iridineae[9]
  • Taxon name: Iridaceae[10]
  • Subclass of: flowering plant[11]
  • Commons category: Iridaceae[12]
  • Taxonomic type: Iris[13]
  • Start time: -60000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[14]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Iridaceae[15]
  • Described by source: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[16], Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 16(1)[17], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18]
  • GRIN URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomyfamily.aspx?id=584[19]
  • Taxon common name: سوسنية[20], iridacees[21], Süsənkimilər[22], Касачовыя[23], Перуникови[24], Iridàcia[25], kosatcovité[26], Iris-familien[27], Schwertliliengewächse[28], Ιριδοειδή[29], iris family[30], Iridacoj[31], Iridáceas[32], Võhumõõgalised[33]

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Identifiers

Iridaceae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 26339[34]. Iridaceae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 4183[35]. Iridaceae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 7698[36]. Iridaceae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 43190[37].

Why It Matters

Iridaceae has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] Iridaceae is known by 58 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Genera plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis kewensibus servata definita. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Reveal System of Classification. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Summary of recent systems of angiosperm classification. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [34] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [37] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [35] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [36] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [38] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [39] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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