Hi, I ordered The Iris Family: Natural History and Classification by Peter Goldblatt and John C. Manning when Timber Press had their discount sale and free shipping even though it wasn't published yet. It arrived about a week ago and I wanted all of you who are interested in such things to know that it is now available. As they say in the preface "taxonomy is truly an unending synthesis, and this volume is just one more step in that process." So this isn't the end of the changes, but they hope this book will be a new baseline. They have set the number of genera at 66 and the species at around 2025. Some genera have been combined and some new ones introduced. Here is a summary: subfamily Isophysidoideae -- Isophysis subfamily Patersonioideae -- Patersonia subfamily Geosiridoideae -- Geosiris subfamily Aristeoideae -- Aristea subfamily Nivenioideae -- Nivienia, Klattia, Witsenia subfamily Crocoideae, broken into five tribes which I won't list -- Tritoniopsis, Cyanixia, Zygotritonia, Savannosiphon, Lapeirousia, Pillansia, Thereianthus, Micranthus, Watsonia, Gladiolus, Melasphaerula, Crocosmia, Devia, Freesia, Xenoscapa, Radinosiphon, Romulea, Afrocrocus, Syringodea, Crocus, Geissorhiza, Hesperantha, Babiana, Chasmanthe, Sparaxis, Duthieastrum, Tritonia, Ixia, Dierama subfamily Iridoideae broken into five tribes which I won't list -- Diplarrena, Iris, Dietes, Bobartia, Ferraria, Moraea, Libertia, Orthrosanthus, Olsynium, Sisyrinchium, Solenomelus, Tapeinia, Trimezia, Pseudotrimezia, Neomarica, Alophia, Calydorea, Cipura, Cobana, Cypella, Eleutherine, Ennealophus, Gelasine, Herbertia, Hesperoxiphion, Larentia, Mastigostyla, Nemastylis, Salpingostylis, Tigridia Hopefully I've spelled those all correctly. They have keys for Nivenioideae, Crocoideae, and Iridoideae which must have been quite an undertaking. This isn't a gardening book, but a natural history and classification book as the title explains. There are some nice color photos in the middle, but as would be expected from the background of the authors these are weighted towards South African species. We don't have illustrations of or even descriptions of many of these genera on the wiki although Lee Poulsen added some of them to the Photographs and Information table awaiting someone to make a page for them. I suppose eventually we'll get some of the cross references added for those genera that have departed like Rigidella (now in Tigridia). Anyone who has the book and wants to write about the genera in the Iris family that have a ? next to them in the table based on this information is welcome to do so. I'm always amused when someone comments with surprise that something isn't on the wiki that they think should be. It takes a volunteer who wants to share the information with others and who is willing to take the time to add it. Mary Sue