Iris damascena Mouterde (1966:318)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Rediscovered (fide Humphreys et al., 2019)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Was listed as Extinct by (WCMC, 1992:224).
Distribution & Habitat
Syria
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Mouterde, P. (1966). Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie. Dar El-Mashreq Editeurs, Beirut, Lebanon.
Other references:
Chaudhary, S. A., Kirkwood, G. and Weymouth, C. (1975). The Iris subgenus Susiana in Lebanon and Syria. Botaniska notiser 128(4): 380-407.
Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]
Mathew, B. (1981). The Iris: 1-202. B.T.Batsford Ltd., London.
POWO. (2025). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 27 July 2025]
Radford, E. A., Catullo, G. and de Montmollin, B. (2011). Important Plant Areas of the south and east Mediterranean region: Priority sites for conservation. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Malaga, Spain.
Sapir, Y. (2016). Iris damascena. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T13161620A18611035. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T13161620A18611035.en. Accessed on 27 July 2025.
Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.
WCMC (World Conservation Monitoring Centre). (1992). Global Biodiversity: Status of the Earth's living resources. London: Chapman & Hall. xx + 594 pp.