Iris laevigata, known as Japanese iris, rabbit-ear iris, or shallow-flowered iris (Japanese: ' カキツバタ), is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae, native to Japan. It is related to other members of Iris subgenus Limniris, including other species of Japanese irises. It is found growing in shallow waters and seems to prefer marshy and still ponds, although it can also be grown in damp soil if conditions are right. Flowers are usually blue, purple or violet and have unique colour patterns including some types with predominantly white flowers with blue spots (washino-o), and dark purples bordered with white (maikujaku). Synonyms include I. albopurpurea and I. phragmitetorum.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Iris laevigata has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens12
Marker genes4
GenBank sequences10
eDNA detections12
The DNA barcodea real sequence read deposited for this species
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
★matK4★rbcL6★ITS★ITS2
plant barcodefungal barcode
06Genome at a glanceCCDB
The complete instruction manualIris laevigata carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Doronkin, V. M. & A. A. Krasnikov. 1984. Cytotaxonomic studies in some Siberian species of the genus Iris (Iridaceae). Bot. Zhurn. SSSR 65(5): 683–685. (In Russian).
CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Yabuya, T. 1985. Amphidiploids between Iris laevigata Fisch. and I. ensata Thunb. induced through in vitro culture of embryos treated with colchicine. Jap. J. Breed. 35: 136–144.
CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Yabuya, T. 1984. Chromosome association and fertility in hybrids of Iris laevigata Fisch. x I. ensata Thunb. Euphytica 33: 369–376.
CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Nishikawa, T. 1985. Chromosome counts of flowering plants of Hokkaido (8). J. Hokkaido Univ. Educ., Sect. 2B 35: 97–111.
CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Yabuta, T. & H. Yamagata. 1980. Elucidation of seed failure and breeding of Fl hybrid in reciprocal crosses between Iris ensata Thunb. and I. Iaevigata Fisch. Jap. J. Breed. 30: 139150.
CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Probatova. 2006. Chromosome numbers of plants of the Primorsky Territory, the Amur River basin and Magadan region. Bot. Žhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 91(3): 491–509.
CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Sharma, A. K. 1970. Annual report, 1967-1968. Res. Bull. Univ. Calcutta Cytogenetics Lab. 2: 1–50.
CCDB · book-ipcn75-78 — Sharma 1970
CCDB · book-ipcn73-74 — BANERJI, M. , M. CHAUDHURI. 1972. Further studies on chromosomes of some Orchidaceae and Iridaceae from the temperate Himalayas. Proc. Indian Sci. Congr. Assoc. 59(III): 347.
2n 281×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Mao, J. q. & X. j. Xue. 1986. Chromosome numbers of thirteen iridaceous species from Zhejiang Province. Acta Agric. Univ. Zhejiang. 12: 99–101.
2n 381×CCDB · iapt
CCDB · iapt
Ploidy records — measured levels and diploid/polyploid inferences · click for sources
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy31% within 1 km
≤100 m 145≤1 km 53≤10 km 141>10 km 304
643 georeferenced · 156 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor799
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Coordinate accuracy18% within 1 km
≤100 m 11≤1 km 5≤10 km 66>10 km 5
87 georeferenced · 204 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence291
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Coordinate accuracy100% within 1 km
≤1 km 1
1 georeferenced
Open the mapnot free-living1
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions22 of 44 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Moscow State Universitylocation not on record
54
Tsukuba, JP
49
Paris, FR
28
Institute of Applied Ecology, Academia Sinicalocation not on record
21
Institute of the biological problems of the North FEB RASlocation not on record
18
Irkutsk State Universitylocation not on record
15
Northeastern Forestry Universitylocation not on record
13
Beijing, CN
11
JP
7
Hokkaido University Museumlocation not on record
5
Forest Survey and Design Institute, Forestry Administrative Bureau of Daxinganlinglocation not on record
4
Peking Universitylocation not on record
4
IWEP FEB RASlocation not on record
4
Canberra, AU
4
Sanda, JP
3
Kensington, AU
3
Kagoshima, JP
3
ENTClocation not on record
3
Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Scienceslocation not on record
3
Christchurch, NZ
3
Nishihara, JP
3
Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record
2
Kunming, CN
2
Servico de Microbiologia e Imunologialocation not on record
2
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ)location not on record
2
Kyoto Universitylocation not on record
2
Tomioka, JP
2
Kew, GB
1
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record
1
Armidale, AU
1
Herbarium of the Department of Botany, University of Tokyolocation not on record
1
Philadelphia, US
1
LDlocation not on record
1
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record
1
Mount Annan, AU
1
Nanjing, CN
1
Taipei, TW
1
CASlocation not on record
1
Santa Barbara, US
1
Yangling, CN
1
Chiba, JP
1
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
1
National Institute of Biological Resourceslocation not on record
1
Edinburgh, GB
1
44 institutions · 287 of 291 vouchered records shown · 4 without an institution code
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
09Environmental DNA12 detections
Where the DNA of Iris laevigata was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Detections DNA found12
Studies independent surveys1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 12 detections have coordinates
Open the map0 countries0
How strong is each trace?
DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation9 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 091 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI12 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics12 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype