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Diagnosis:
Moraea bovonei, known from only a single gathering as of 2005, is a remarkable plant. It has a very long slender stem, some 400 mm high, and the long, terete leaf is inserted at the stem apex, immediately under the inflorescence. Unlike the related species, M. balundana and M. unifoliata, in which the leaf is also inserted below the inflorescence, the leaf of M. bovonei is very long, approximately equal in length to the stem. It is also distinguished from its allies by the presence of two sheathing leaves crowded at the base of the rhipidium, whereas there is only one in M. balundana and none in M. unifoliata.
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