Flora Iranica is a series of books on the flora of Iranian highlands and adjacent mountains in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan.
The general editor of the series was the Austrian botanist Karl Heinz Rechinger (1963 - 1998).
[2] From 1963 up to 2005, 176 fascicles of Flora Iranica were published holding details about 9977 species and 1471 genera.
A total number of 3318 species were mentioned as endemic to the Flora Iranica area (33%) and this included 1490 species which are known as endemic to Iran (24%).
Up to 97 botanist from 20 different countries have contributed to Flora Iranica, which includes 10065 pages of text and 5873 pages of high quality black/white tabulae (pictures) of herbarium specimens and also 204 colour illustrations of 397 pictures.