It is a bulbous perennial from Central Asia: Kyrgyzstan, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and southern Turkey.

[6] This then joined the subspecies of iris reticulata, which has now been grouped with other under the subgenus of Hermodactyloides.

If these are planted separately in a reserve ground, they will develop into flowering bulbs in the course of two or three years.

aintabensis because of variations in leaf, perigon tube and segment measurements.

aintabensis has pale smaller blue flowers that are splashed darker on the falls and with a yellow or orange ridge.

[18] It was found in the rocky scrublands of southern Turkey, in the Gaziantep-Maras region.