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Plants with filiform style branches either simple or forked to base into paired filiform arms extending between anthers; both inner and outer tepals usually with contrasting markings
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Plants with flattened style branches appressed to opposed anthers, with out without obvious crests
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Style branches simple, filiform, extending between anthers; tepals predominantly blue to violet
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(3)
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Style branches with paired filiform arms; flowers yellow or blue to violet
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(5)
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Foliage leaf channelled, 5-7 mm wide; leaf margins thickened
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Moraea marginata
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Foliage leaf terete; without margins
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(4)
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Leaf straight, hollow, ± 3 mm diam., about as long as stem
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Moraea fistulosa
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Leaf falcate, and somewhat twisted, not hollow, ± 1 mm diam, longer than stem, often trialing distally
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Moraea montana
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Perianth shades of blue to violet
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(6)
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Perianth yellow to beige
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Stem 80–100 mm high, weakly flexuose; foliage leaf solitary; stem 1- or 2-branched; plants of southern Namibia
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Moraea hexaglottis
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Stem 200–450 mm high, straight; foliage leaves 2 or more; stem usually with 1–4 primary branches each (1–)4–6 sessile lateral flower clusters at upper nodes; plants of interior Western Cape
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Moraea pearsonii
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Tepals united basally in a short perianth tube
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Tepals free to base
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(10)
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Perianth tube (3-)4-9 mm long; ovary entirely included
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Moraea virgata
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Perianth tube 1.5–2 mm long; upper part of ovary sometimes emerging from spathes
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Leaf margins straight; plants with several to many sessile lateral rhipidia; anther 6–7 mm long
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Moraea brevituba
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Leaf margins undulate (sometimes crisped); plants unbranched or with 1 or 2 shortly stalked lateral rhipidia; anthers ± 3 mm long
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Moraea thermarum
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Lateral rhipidia stalked; leaves comparatively broad and short, to 11 mm wide, spreading and twisted, with margins undulate and often crisped
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Moraea namaquana
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Lateral rhipidia sessile, spicately arranged on the main or primary branches
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Capsules narrowly ellipsoid to cylindric-trigonous; rarely > 3 mm at widest, plants of open and dry habitats
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Moraea lewisiae
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Capsules obovoid to club-shaped, truncate above; 4–8 mm at the widest point; plants of moist habitats, stream sides, and seeps
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12 (11)
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Capsules 12-16(-23) mm long and 6-8 mm wide; inner spathe of lateral rhipidia usually shorter than outer and concealed by the sheathing bract leaves
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Moraea longifolia
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12 Capsules 6-10(-12) mm long and ca. 4 mm wide; inner spathe of the lateral rhipidia usually longer than outer and not concealed
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Moraea riparia
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13 (1)
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Ovary subsessile and perianth raised above spathes on sterile tubular extension of ovary AND style branches broad, petaloid and bearing prominent crests; rhipidial spathes translucent between veins
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(14)
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Ovary subsessile or on long pedicels with or without beaked ovary AND style branches reduced or broad, petaloid and bearing crests; rhipidial spathes not translucent between veins
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(20)
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14 (13)
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Foliage leaves 2; leaf blades helically coiled and with median band of translucent tissue
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Moraea pritzeliana
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Foliage leaves 1 or 2; leaf blades linear straight or laxly twisted, usually channelled, uniformly green
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(15)
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15 (14)
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Flowers small, outer tepals 12–18 mm long; anthers 2.5–4.0 mm long
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Moraea setifolia
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Flowers moderate-sized, inner tepals (17–)19–30 mm long; anthers (4–)5–8 mm long
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(16)
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Flowers white; inner tepal limbs erect
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Moraea cedarmontana
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Flowers blue to blue-mauve or violet; inner tepal limbs half reflexed
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(17)
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Foliage leaves 2; flowers crepuscular, opening after 17:00
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Moraea hesperantha
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Foliage leaves usually solitary or 2; flowers diurnal, collapsing in late afternoon
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Plants of summer rainfall southern Africa; tepals blue-mauve mottled with age in darker colour; outer tepals 17–28 mm long
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Moraea simulans
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Plants of western winter rainfall southern Africa; tepals blue-mauve to violet, not mottledwith age in darker colour; outer tepals 21–30 mm long
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(19)
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Claws of outer tepals 11–12 mm long; tepals pale blue–blue-mauve
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Moraea australis
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Claws of outer tepals 7–8 mm long; tepals blue-violet
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Moraea contorta
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Sheath of cauline leaf sheathing or with extended blade with very short sheathing part less than 7 mm long
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(21)
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Sheath of cauline leaf (leaves) with sheathing part more than 12 mm long
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(22)
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21 (20)
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Ovary 8–12 mm long and included in rhipidial spathes; outer spathes 30–45 mm long
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Moraea iringensis
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Ovary 3–5 mm long and exserted from rhipidial spathes; outer spathes 20–35 mm long
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Moraea afro-orientalis
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22 (20)
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Foliage leaves 2 or more
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(23)
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Foliage leaf solitary (sometimes absent at flowering), remaining leaves entirely sheathing stem
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(38)
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23 (22)
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Style branches bearing prominent, erect paired crests; outer tepals bearing nectar guides at bases of limbs
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(24)
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Style branches reduced, as wide or narrower than anthers with crests vestigial or lacking; nectar guides present at bases of limbs of both tepal limbs
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(34)
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24 (23)
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Ovary and capsules included in rhipidial spathes
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(25)
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Ovary and capsules exserted from rhipidial spathes
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(31)
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25 (24)
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Lower or all foliage leaves ± basal; blades twisted or coiled
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(26)
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Leaves inserted well above ground, ± opposed at first aerial node
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(30)
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Inner tepals spathulate with limbs erect; leaves twisted, or coiled, and narrowly channelled
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Moraea serpentina
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Inner tepals ± obovate, with limbs of both whorls half-reflexed
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27 (26)
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Leaves 2 or 3, with blades terete and helically coiled
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Moraea tortilis
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Leaves 2, with blades channeled or terete but not coiled
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(28)
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28 (27)
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Foliage leaves terete, < 1 mm diam., straight, possibly trailing distally; outer tepals ± 18 × 8 mm
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Moraea teretifolia
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Foliage leaves channeled, shorter than stem with margins undulate (crisped); outer tepals 25–30 × 10
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(29)
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29 (28)
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Leaf margins undulate (crisped); flowers white with yellow nectar guides on outer tepals; plants of Namaqualand South Africa
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Moraea geminifolia
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Leaf margins plane; flowers largely white becoming blue to purple towards bases of tepals and with narrow white nectar guides on outer tepals; plants of southern Tanzania
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Moraea callista
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30 (25)
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Stems and leaves fairly sturdy, stem mostly 2–4 mm diam.; flowers moderate-sized to large, outer tepals 30–50 mm long; capsules mostly 12–30 mm long
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Moraea fugax
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Stems and leaves ± filiform, stem rarely > 1 mm diam.; flowers moderate-sized, outer tepals 20–33 mm long mm long; capsules 9–13(–15) mm long
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Moraea filicaulis
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Flower with outer tepals 16–30 mm long; inner rhipidial spathes 20–45 mm long
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Flowers with outer tepals 36–60 mm long; inner rhipidial spathes 40–60 mm long
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(33)
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Foliage leaves 2(3); inner rhipidial spathes mostly 30–45 mm long; plants of northern Namibia, Botswana and southern tropical Africa
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Moraea carsonii
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Foliage leaves (2)3 or 4; inner rhipidial spathes 20–40(–45) mm long; plants southern Western and Eastern Cape
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Moraea bipartita
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Ovary veined with red (not southern Cape populations); outer tepals 36–55 mm long; capsules 9–16 mm long, erect
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Moraea polystachya
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Ovary uniformly green; outer tepals 45–60 mm long; capsules 16–20 mm long, often nodding
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Moraea venenata
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34 (23)
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Plants acaulescent or almost so; tepals united basal in a tube 5–6 mm long
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Moraea graniticola
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Plants with well developed aerial stem; tepals free to base
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35 (34)
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Style dividing at top of filament column and diverging from base
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Moraea polyanthos
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Style dividing at or above middle of anthers, hardly diverging
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(36)
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Foliage leaves several (at last 4); leaf blades 20–40 mm wide; style branches 2–6 mm long
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Moraea speciosa
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Foliage leaves 2 or 3; leaf blades narrow, 2–5 mm wide; style branches ± 1 mm long
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(37)
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Ovary veined with red; tepals ± 30–36 mm long; anthers 5.5–6.6 mm long, contiguous with style dividing opposite anther tips and overtopping them
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Moraea deserticola
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Ovary uniformly green; tepals ± 22 mm long; anthers 4–5 mm long exceeding style branches ± 1 mm long
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Moraea tanquana
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Plants of eastern southern Africa and tropical Africa
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Plants of western, winter rainfall southern Africa
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Foliage leaf absent or dry at flowering time (or new leaf emergent), blade terete without longitudinal groove
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(40)
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Foliage leaf present at flowering time; blade channelled, sometimes margins tightly inrolled, seeming terete but with narrow longitudinal adaxial groove
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(42)
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Style branches reduced, narrow, lacking crests
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Moraea thomsonii
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Style branches not reduced, always bearing crests
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Flowers pale lilac to blue-mauve; outer tepals 18–20 mm long
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Moraea stricta
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Flowers violet; outer tepals 12–15 mm long
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Moraea alpina
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Leaf inserted at base or shortly above ground
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Moraea elliotii
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Leaf inserted well above ground often at base of first branches; branches often short, somewhat crowded above first aerial node
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(43)
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Inner rhipidial spathes 34–40 mm long; capsules globose, ± 5 mm diam.; outer tepals 25–30 mm long
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Moraea inclinata
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Inner rhipidial spathes .. mm long; capsules club-shaped up to 10 mm long; outer tepals 15–20 mm long
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Moraea natalensis
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Style branches bearing prominent, erect paired crests; only outer tepals bearing nectar guides at bases of limbs
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Style branches reduced, mostly as wide or narrower than anthers with crests vestigial or lacking; inner and outer tepals usually bearing nectar guides at bases of limbs
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(55)
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Leaf inserted well above ground often at base of first branches; branches often short, somewhat crowded above first aerial node
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(46)
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Leaf inserted at base, plants branched or not
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(48)
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Spathes short, 20–35(–40) mm long; capsules 10–12 mm long; branches many on extended stem (see also M. filicaulis above)
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Moraea gracilenta
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Spathes longer, (35–)40–65 mm long; capsules 15–28(–40) mm long
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Plants usually unbranched, rarely 1- or 2-branched; capsules 18–30 mm long; flowers blue to mauve or violet or white; outer tepals 20–30 mm long
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Moraea macrocarpa
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Plants several to many branched, often crowded; capsules 12–30 mm long; flowers moderate-sized to large, white, blue or yellow, outer tepals 30–50 mm long
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Moraea fugax
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Ovary and capsules exserted; rhipidial spathes green, sometimes dry toward tips
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(49)
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Ovary and capsules included; rhipidial spathes partly dry, with broad membrnaous margins
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(50)
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49 (48)
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Flowers small, outer tepals 14–17 × 4.5–6.0 mm; outer tepals reflexed up to 30º; inner rhipidial spathes 22–32 mm long
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Moraea exiliflora
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Flowers moderate in size, outer tepals 20–30 mm long; outer tepals reflexed 45º or more; inner rhipidial spathes 33–60 mm long
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Moraea lazulina
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50 (48)
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Foliage leaf terete, straight below, loosely to tightly coiled in distal 1/3; flowers white to creamy white
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Moraea acocksii
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Leaves dorsiventral, channelled at least below, often twisted distally; flowers white, yellow or blue to blue-mauve (lilac)
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Plants small, up to 150 mm high; outer tepals 22–28 mm long; outer tepal claws ± 8–10 mm long, thus ± half as long as limbs
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Moraea quartzicola
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Plants usually exceeding 200 mm; outer tepals 26–40 mm long; outer tepal claws ± as long as limbs
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Filaments ± 15 mm long and anthers 3–4 mm long (< 1/3 as long as filaments); outer tepals ± 30 × ± 8 mm
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Moraea macgregoriorum
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Filaments 10–14 mm long and anthers 5–9 mm long (± 1/2 to > 1/2 as long as filaments); outer tepals 26–47 × 10–22 mm
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Foliage leaf narrowly channelled (sometimes appearing ± terete but with narrow adaxial groove); margins straight; flowers blue-mauve or white
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Moraea namibensis
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Foliage leaf twisted, or straight, margins straight or undulate to partly crisped; flowers pale or deep yellow, white or pale blue-mauve
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Leaf usually trailing almost from base, margins undulate to crisped; flowers usually yellow
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Moraea bolusii
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Leaf falcate, thus erect in lower half, almost straight to undulate; flowers pale blue-mauve or white, rarely pale, watery yellow
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Moraea saxicola
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Ovary extended above as a sterile tube; leaves terete
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Ovary without sterile tubular extension; leaves channelled (sometimes with narrow longitudinal groove) or terete
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56 (55)
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Leaf ± 3 mm diam., interior hollow and pithy, rigidly erect; tubular upper part of ovary ± 1 mm long
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Moraea rigidifolia
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Leaf ± 1 mm diam, straight or loosely coiled helically; tubular part of ovary 7–10 mm long
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Moraea herrei
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57 (55)
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Plants with 2–4 branches, all stalked; capsules ellipsoid-obovoid
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Moraea crispa
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Plants 1 or 2 stalked primary branches from base but bearing sessile lateral rhipidia above; capsules globose or spindle-shaped
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Capsules globose, 2–4 mm diam., membranous and semitransparent, fragmenting irregularly; flowering December to March
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Moraea pseudospicata
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Capsules, ± spindle-shaped with a short sterile beak; flowering October–November
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Moraea verecunda
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