Re: naming irises

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I want to make sure I understand correctly. And I'm still trying to compute what the implications are for what the lecturing professor said. (When it comes to matters of clone and cultivar it seems it can be difficult to make sure everyone understands each other clearly.) The AIS only registers iris clones? I presume this would mean this is the current policy but things in the past might be have been different. So for an iris hypothetically registered in 2015 as 'HYPO', this iris name is to be understood by the world as denoting a singular clone and a cultivar and these two are synonymous? And to be clearer still, no other clone but this singular clone can be properly labeled or referred to as 'HYPO', no matter how phenotypically it resembles 'HYPO'?

All the fuss being perhaps important if in 2050 we are trying to protect the utility of name 'HYPO' when doing research where it shows in the pedigree of various irises.