Iris grant-duffiiBaker

Grant Duff's IrisJaffa Iris

WFO wfo-0000783408 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Iris grant-duffii, photographed by Udi Oron אודי אורון
fig. a Udi Oron אודי אורון, CC0 1.0 / 2022-02-26 / obs. 181630475
Iris grant-duffii, photographed by Udi Oron אודי אורון
fig. b Udi Oron אודי אורון, CC0 1.0 / obs. 181630477
Iris grant-duffii, photographed by Udi Oron אודי אורון
fig. c Udi Oron אודי אורון, CC0 1.0 / obs. 181630479

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Iris grant-duffii is native: Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine IraqLebanon-SyriaPalestine
Native distribution of Iris grant-duffii, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Iraq IRQ ASIA-TEMPERATE
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 3 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Iris melanosticta Bornm.
  • Syrianthus grant-duffii (Baker) M.B.Crespo, Mart.-Azorín & Mavrodiev
  • Syrianthus melanostictus (Bornm.) M.B.Crespo, Mart.-Azorín & Mavrodiev

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.