Belamcanda Perigone

Crespo, Manuel B., Martínez-Azorín, Mario & Mavrodiev, Evgeny V., 2015, Can a rainbow consist of a single colour? A new comprehensive generic arrangement of the ‘ Iris sensu latissimo’ clade (Iridaceae), congruent with morphology and molecular data, Phytotaxa 232 (1), pp. 448-450 : 448-450

Perigone segments all equal, free; style branches filiform, non-petaloid; capsule valves split down to base; seeds fleshy, blackish, globose, long persisting on the fruit axis (resembling a blackberry)........................................... 3. Belamcanda Perigone segments unequal (falls and standards), fused in a tube or rarely free; style branches flattened, petaloid; capsule and seeds with other characteristics............................................................................................................................ 2 Leaves bifacial (dorsiventrally flattened), usually canaliculate, sometimes polygonal in cross section ........................... 3 Leaves isobilateral (laterally flattened), usually equitant .................................................................................................. 7 Roots fleshy, swollen, persistent; standards patent to reflexed; falls obovate, usually with a prominent central crest....... ................................................................................................................................................................................. 5. Juno Roots fibrous, usually not fleshy neither swollen, deciduous; standards erect; falls panduriform, not crested or with a weak, inconspicuous crest.................................................................................................................................................. 4 Basal leaves quadrangular to octagonal in cross section; seeds appendiculate ................................................................. 5 Basal leaves semicircular to circular in cross section, sometimes with prominent ribs or keel; seeds not appendiculate .. ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Rootstock a bulb, with outer tunics reticulate, sometimes enclosing several offsets; standards conspicuous, longer than half the style branches length; ovary and capsule trilocular .................................................................... 15. Iridodictyum Rootstock with 2–4 oblong tubercles, ± digitate; standards inconspicuous, shorter than half the style branches length; ovary and capsule unilocular................................................................................................................ 17. Hermodactylus Outer tunics of bulb reticulate. Leaves prominently ribbed on the outer side, sometimes keeled; stem inconspicuous, underground; stigma entire .............................................................................................................................. 20. Alatavia Outer tunics of bulb membranous to somewhat fibrous, not reticulate. Leaves without prominent ribs on the outer side, not keeled; stem conspicuous, aerial; stigma bifid, usually with acute lobes .................................................. 19. Xiphion Flowering stems with marked dichotomous branching pattern; flowers short-lived, shrivelling spirally and falling off just below the ovary; pedicels persistent, stiff after flower abscission; seeds winged ............................ 2. Pardanthopsis Flowering stems simple or without evident dichotomous branching pattern; flowers not shrivelling spirally, falling off

A NEW GENERIC ARRANGEMENT OF IRIS SENSU LATISSIMO

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