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Fortnight Lilies
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Fortnight Lilies

Dietes

Dietes is a genus of rhizomatous plants of the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1866. Common names include wood iris, Fortnight lily, African iris, Japanese iris and Butterfly iris, each of which may be used differently in different regions for one or more of the six species within the genus.

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7 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Large Fortnight Lily

speciesDietes grandiflora

Yellow Fortnight Lily

speciesDietes bicolor

Small Fortnight Lily

speciesDietes iridioides

Hybrid African Iris

hybridDietes bicolor × iridioides

Forest Iris

speciesDietes butcheriana

Lord Howe wedding lily

speciesDietes robinsoniana

Yellow Wood Iris

speciesDietes flavida

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 125854.