Iris milesiiBaker ex Foster

WFO wfo-0000783626 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, 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 milesii, photographed by Name
fig. a Name, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-04 / obs. 195011196
Iris milesii, photographed by Name
fig. b Name, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195011879
Iris milesii, photographed by Peggy Newman
fig. c Peggy Newman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205783283
Iris milesii, photographed by Name
fig. d Name, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195011248
Iris milesii, photographed by Peggy Newman
fig. e Peggy Newman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205783253

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Iris milesii is native: China South-Central, Tibet, West Himalaya China South-CentralTibetWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Iris milesii, 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
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
Tibet CHT
West Himalaya WHM ASIA-TROPICAL

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 1 synonym

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.

  • Tectiris milesii (Baker ex Foster) 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. 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.

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