Taxon: Iris ensata Thunb.

Common names:

• beaked iris   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• jade cicada-flower   (Source: Iris China ) – English
  
• Japanese iris   (Source: Hortus 3 [as I. kaempferi]) – English
  
• Japanese water iris   (Source: B. F. Mathew, p.c.) – English
  
• sword-leaf iris   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• yu chan hua   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• iris du Japon   (Source: Zander Ency ) – French
  
• japanische Sumpf-Schwertlilie   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• hana-shōbu   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• japansk iris   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Eur Gard F; Zander ed13)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Aga Buryat, Buryatia, Chita, Gorno-Altay, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tuva
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Primorye, Sakhalin
  China: China - Heilongjiang [n.], Jilin, Liaoning, Shandong, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu; Korea

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR).
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. [= I. kaempferi].
• Mathew, B. F. 1996. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Mathew, B. 1981. The Iris. 103.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles. [natzd.].
• Waddick, J. W. & Zhao Yu-tang. 1992. Iris of China.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Synonyms:

• (=) Iris ensata var. pabularia Naudin
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Iris ensata var. spontanea (Makino) Nakai
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• (=) Iris kaempferi Siebold ex Lem.
  (previously associated with 92 accessions)
• (=) Iris kaempferi var. spontanea Makino
  
• (=) Iris pabularia hort. ex Hasselbr.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Iris ensata Thunb.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Iris ensata cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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