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Taxonomy

Physical Description

Genus Iphigenia:

Herbs perennial, cormous. Corm covered with a tunic. Stem erect, leafy. Leaves several, scattered, sessile, linear. Flowers solitary or several in a terminal corymb, small; bracts leaflike; pedicels long. Tepals 6, free, spreading, rather narrow, clawed, usually caducous. Stamens 6, inserted at base of tepals; filaments short, slightly flat; anthers versatile, extrorse. Ovary 3-loculed, ovoid to oblong; ovules many per locule. Style short, apically 3-lobed, adaxially stigmatic. Fruit a loculicidal capsule. Seeds many, subglobose; testa brown, thin.

About ten species: Africa (including Madagascar), tropical Asia, Australia, Pacific Islands (New Zealand) ; one species in China.^[1]

Similar Species

Members of the genus Iphigenia:

There are approximately 44 species and subspecies in this genus: I. abyssinica · I. altier · I. altior · I. bechuanica · I. bicolor · I. boinensis · I. brasiliana (Giant Coquina) · I. brasiliensis · I. caricina · I. compressus · I. cuneatus · I. delesserti · I. dinteri · I. faba · I. flexuosa · I. guineensis · I. indica · I. junodii · I. lacunosa · I. laevigata (Brick Goby) · I. ledermanii · I. ledermannii · I. lenzi · I. magnifica · I. mysorensis · I. nitidus · I. novae-zelandiae · I. oliveri · I. pallida · I. pauciflora · I. racemosa · I. radians · I. ramosissima · I. robusta · I. sahyadrica · I. schlechteri · I. socotrana · I. somaliensis · I. stellata · I. stenotepala · I. strumosa · I. sudanica · I. ticaonicus · I. tumida

Members of the genus Isognomon:

There are approximately 119 species and subspecies in this genus. Here are just 100 of them: I. acutirostris · I. ageroensis · I. alalus · I. alata · I. alata bicolor · I. alatus (Flat Tree-Oyster) · I. albisoror · I. anamioides · I. anomiodes · I. anomioides · I. argillacea · I. attentuata · I. attenuata · I. australica · I. bathonicus · I. bicolor (Bicolor Purse-Oyster) · I. biplicatum · I. bouchardi · I. brentonensis · I. californicum · I. californicus · I. cereviciana · I. chemnitziana · I. chemnitzianus · I. choshiensis · I. clarki · I. costellata · I. costellatum · I. costellatus (Naked Hover Goby) · I. costellus · I. ephippim · I. ephippium · I. eremita · I. exilis · I. femoralis · I. flambarti · I. flamberti · I. foliaceum · I. hataii · I. holmesi · I. ichikawai · I. incisa · I. incisum · I. isognomoides · I. I. · I. I.oides · I. isognomum · I. isognomum var. femoralis (Linnaeus, 1758) · I. isognomun · I. isogonum · I. janus janus (Thin Purse-Oyster) · I. jupiter · I. karakuldjensis · I. lamarckiana · I. lamarckianus · I. lamberti · I. laticostata · I. legumen · I. leona · I. listeri · I. lotenoensis · I. lusitanicum · I. lusitanicus · I. marsupium · I. maxillata · I. maxillatus · I. mimeticus · I. murchisonii · I. mytiloides · I. nucleus · I. obliqua · I. orientalis · I. oxoniensis · I. perna · I. pernum (Clearfin Lionfish) · I. perra · I. platinoides · I. promytilodes · I. promytiloides · I. pygmaea · I. radiata · I. radiatus (Lister Purse-Oyster) · I. raiatus · I. recognitus (Purple Purse-Oyster) · I. rectangularis · I. rekohuenis · I. rekohuensis · I. repini · I. ricordeanus · I. ricordiana · I. rikuzenicus · I. rodiatus · I. rollei · I. rugosum · I. rugosus · I. rupella · I. sanchuensis · I. securiformis · I. semiaurita · I. semiauritus (Amboina Porgy)

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Notes

Contributors:

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 08, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.

Data Sources:

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 08, 2007:

• Avian Knowledge Network, Hawk Migration Association of North America - HawkCount
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity - Fish Collection
• Museum of Southwestern Biology, Division of Amphibians and Reptiles, Museum of Southwestern Biology, Division of Amphibians and Reptiles database

Identifiers:

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 17894525
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2632556

Footnotes:

1. Chen Sing-chi, Minoru N. Tamura "Iphigenia". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 158. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.