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Bothalia 43: 37. 2013. ( Bothalia) 
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(Last Modified On 6/22/2016)
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Acceptance
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 6/23/2016)
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Description:
Plants usually acaulescent (not M. longipes), usually unbranched, often with single rhipidium; corm tunics usually pale and coarsely fibrous. Foliage leaves several to few, hardly distinct from spathes, channelled. Flowers fugaceous, retracted after anthesis to base of rhipidium, various colours; stamens united in lower half; style branches well developed. Capsules concealed in spathes. Basic chromosome number x = 10.
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Stem extending well above ground with leaves clustered at first aerial node
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Moraea longipes
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Stem subterranean with leaves borne at ground level
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(2)
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2 (1)
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Plants usually with multiple flower clusters (rhipidia), sometimes growing in tufts; leaves 5 or more, ± falcate or spreading horizontally; flowers white with yellow nectar guides at base of outer tepal limbs and usually a violet to purple mark near top of inner tepal claws or base of limbs; filaments ± 6 mm, united in lower half; corm tunics dark and coarsely fibrous; leaves smooth, occ. ciliate on margins
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Plants usually growing singly with solitary flower cluster (sometimes 2 or 3 in M. ciliata); leaves (not including sheathing inner spathe of rhipidium) mostly 3 or 4(6), suberect or falcate, sometimes twisted; flowers predominantly blue, mauve, pink, red, yellow o white, with yellow nectar guides, inner tepals usually without markings; filaments 3–18 mm long, united only basally or for up to half their length; corm tunics pale, fibrous (sometimes coarsely so) or consisting of layers of spongy tissue
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3 (2)
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Leaves tapering from broad base to slender acute apex, mostly 30–50 mm long, laxly twisted with acute apex; floral bracts not evident, retained within spathes; outer tepals 18–22 mm long . . . 51. M. falcifolia
3b Leaves oblong, up to 20 mm, straight with obtuse apex; floral bracts extending above leaves as dry white-membranous threads; outer tepals ± 14 mm long
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Moraea falcifolia
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Leaves oblong, up to 20 mm, straight with obtuse apex; floral bracts extending above leaves as dry white-membranous threads; outer tepals ± 14 mm long
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Moraea filamentosa
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4 (2)
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Flowers with outer tepals 40–60 mm long and claws 25–40 mm long, ± twice as long as limbs; filaments 12–18 mm long, united in lower half; flowers predominantly yellow, sometimes with white inner tepals
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Moraea macronyx
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Outer tepals 18–25 mm long with claws 9–18 mm long, ± as long or shorter than limbs; filaments 3–10 mm long and united basally for 1/5 to 1/2 their length; flowers blue to violet, white, yellow, pink or red
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5 (4)
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Style branches 4–5 mm long, with broadly triangular crests, 8–10 × 4–5 mm wide at base, ± twice as long as style branches; filaments 3–4 mm long; flowers yellow, red, purple or violet
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Moraea tricolor
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Style branches 6–16 mm long with lanceolate to narrowly wedge-shaped or ± linear crests 7–15 × 2–3 mm at base; filaments 4–10 mm long; flowers blue to mauve, white, yellow or pink to dull red
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(6)
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6 (5)
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Leaves twisted distally with margins thickened, strongly undulate to crisped and usually smooth; flowers pale yellow or with white inner tepals; seeds small, angular-prismatic, 1.3–1.5 × 1.0–1.3 mm
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Moraea flava
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Leaves usually ± straight to falcate and often partly hairy (rarely twisted distally and ciliate) with margins straight, undulate or lightly crisped, sometimes thickened and ciliate to long hairy; flowers blue, deep yellow often brown outside, or white rarely with pink flush; seeds (where known) relatively large, softly angular to ± globose, 1.4–2.5 mm diam.
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Moraea ciliata
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