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Iris Registration
(updated
January 25, 2007)
Iris Registration and
Introduction
Overview:
AIS is the official world registry of iris. Each iris variety is
first "Registered" with the AIS and later "Introduced". An iris is considered
"Registered" when the application is accepted and approved by the AIS
Registrar. Following this, when an iris is offered for sale to the
general public and when proof of that is submitted to the
AIS Registrar it would then be considered "Introduced". The date/year of
Registration and Introduction are usually different. The procedures
are outlined below.
Registration Form:
Click here to view/download/print the
Registration Form
The above file is provided as a downloadable
Adobe Acrobat PDF type file. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view
this file. Adobe Acrobat Reader is free software for
viewing and printing Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files on all
major hardware and operating system platforms. It is a very useful add
on program that many people already have installed on their computer. If
you need to get the free Adobe Acrobat Reader program use this
link.
Click here to
get Adobe Acrobat. Completed Registration Forms are sent
to:
AIS Registrar-Recorder
Mike and Anne Lowe, 12219 Zilles Road,
Blackstone, VA 23824
phone: (804) 265-8198 e-mail:
aisregistrar@irises.org
REGISTRATION
INSTRUCTIONS/REGULATIONS:
1. For all classes of irises
EXCEPT bulbous irises, request registration application from
Registrar-Recorder. (or download the
Registration Form from the above link)
2. Remit registration fee – payable to the American Iris Society
– $10.00 for each iris. The cost to register and transfer a name from a
previous registration is $10.00.
3. Select a name which has not previously been used and submit it
for approval when requesting application. Refer to ten year Check Lists
(1939, 1949, etc.) and annual registration supplements issued after the
latest Check List. (Please also submit alternate names.) A name is not
registered until the registration application has been filed and a
certificate of registration returned to you.
4. Names should follow the rules established by the International
Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants. The following names will not
be permitted:
a) Names of living persons without their written consent, or names of
recently deceased (within past ten years) persons without permission of
next of kin or other authority.
b) A person’s name including the following forms of address or
equivalent in another language: Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms.
c) Names including symbols, numerals, non-essential punctuation, or
abbreviations.
d) Names beginning with the articles “a” or “the” or their equivalent in
other languages unless required by linguistic custom.
e) Names in Latin or in latinized form.
f) Slight variation of a previously registered name.
g) Names in excess of four words, or thirty letters.
h) Names containing the word “iris” or “flag” or the species name of any
recognized species of Iris, or formed wholly by recombining parts of the
parental species’ names.
i) Names containing the hybridizer’s name in possessive form. (Green
Pastures acceptable; Green’s Pastures not.)
j) Names which exaggerate or may become inaccurate (e.g. Heaviest Lace,
Tallest Black), or which are composed solely of adjectives which could
be construed as a simple description of a non-registered iris (e.g. Late
Pink, Pale Blue, Ruffled).
k) Names translated from the original language. (They should be
transliterated as necessary instead.)
5. Previously registered names may be re-used if (a) the
originally registered iris has not been introduced or distributed by
name, (b) does not appear by name in parentage registrations, and (c) a
release is obtained from the original registrant.
6. Names will not be released as obsolete unless no stock now
exists and the iris was not listed as a parent in registrations.
INTRODUCTION
Introduction is the offering for sale to the public. Catalogs, printed
lists, and advertisements in the American Iris Society Bulletin are
acceptable means of introduction. Irises must be recorded as introduced
before they become eligible for awards of the Society higher than High
Commendation. It is the responsibility of the hybridizer to send by
first-class mail to the Registrar-Recorder a copy of the catalog, list,
advertisement or printed copy of website (and URL) showing introduction.
ABBREVIATIONS
AB Arilbred
AR Aril
BB Border Bearded
CA Californicae
F. Falls (sepals)
IB Intermediate Bearded
JI Japanese
LA Louisiana
MDB Miniature Dwarf Bearded
MTB Miniature Tall Bearded
RE Remontant (reblooming)
S. Standards (erect petals)
SDB Standard Dwarf Bearded
Sdlg. Seedling
SIB Siberian
SPEC Species
SPEC-X Species hybrid
SPU Spuria
TB Tall Bearded
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