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|accepted_name=Iris giganticaerulea
|accepted_authority=Small
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Addisonia
|place=14: 5, plate 451. 1929
|year=1929
}}
|common_names=Giant blue iris
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Iris elephantina
|authority=Small
|rank=species
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|name=Iris hexagona var. giganticaerulea
|authority=(Small) R. C. Foster
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Iris miraculosa
|authority=Small
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Iridaceae;Iris;Iris subg. Limniris;Iris sect. Limniris;Iris (sect. Limniris) ser. Hexagonae;Iris giganticaerulea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Iridaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Iris]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Iris subg. Limniris]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Iris sect. Limniris]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>series</small>[[Iris (sect. Limniris) ser. Hexagonae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Iris giganticaerulea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 394
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Rhizomes </b>green, extensively branched, forming large clumps, 2–4 cm diam., with pale leaf scars. <b>Stems</b> 2–3-branched, solid, 10–15(–20+) dm. <b>Leaves</b>: basal 4–6, erect, blade bright green, ensiform, 10–13 dm × 2–3 cm, apex slightly curved; cauline with blade foliaceous, appearing as elongated spathe, 5–6.5 dm × 2–3 cm, not exceeding flowers. <b>Inflorescence</b> units 2–3-flowered, branch units 1–2-flowered; spathes tightly enclosing ovary and pedicel, 15–20 cm, subequal; outer narrowly lanceolate, keeled, margins pale, narrow, inner margins translucent, broad, scarious. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth blue or blue-purple; floral tube tubular-prismatic, 9-ribbed and -grooved, 4–5 cm; sepals blue or blue-purple with white streaks surrounding signal, oval to orbicular-oval, 9.5–11 × 4–5 cm, base abruptly attenuate into claw, apex obtusely angled, signal with raised, yellow, pubescent central ridge, claw green, striate, 4–4.5 × 1–1.2 cm; petals erect or spreading-erect, spatulate, 7–8.5 × 2–3 cm, base cuneate, apex emarginate; ovary bluntly 6-angled, 4–4.5 cm; style blue-violet, keeled, 3.5–4 cm, raised above sepals, crests recurved, 1.5–2 cm, margins sharply and irregularly serrate; stigmas 2-lobed with 2 triangular teeth; pedicel columnar, 3.5–5 cm. <b>Capsules</b> drooping, bright green, ellipsoid, hexagonal in cross section, with 6 broad, rounded lobes, 8–10 × 3 cm, indehiscent; after anthesis, flower stem elongates, arching downward to push capsule into water, where walls are broken down and as funiculus is broken, seed rises to surface. <b>Seeds</b> in 2 rows per locule, brown, D-shaped, 8–10 mm wide, very corky. <b>2n</b> = 44.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Apr.
|habitat=Shallow water or very wet roadside ditches
|distribution=Ala.;La.;Miss.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Iris giganticaerulea
|authority=Small
|rank=species
|parent rank=series
|synonyms=Iris elephantina;Iris hexagona var. giganticaerulea;Iris miraculosa
|basionyms=
|family=Iridaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Apr.
|habitat=Shallow water or very wet roadside ditches
|distribution=Ala.;La.;Miss.
|reference=None
|publication title=Addisonia
|publication year=1929
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_806.xml
|genus=Iris
|subgenus=Iris subg. Limniris
|section=Iris sect. Limniris
|series=Iris (sect. Limniris) ser. Hexagonae
|species=Iris giganticaerulea
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