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1265.000 Moraea
Description of the genus
Perennial herbs, dying back each year, with corms. Foliage leaves 1-several. Inflorescence composed of rhipidia; rhipidia 1 per branch or crowded terminally, each enclosed in a pair of spathes. Flowers actinomorphic, Iris-like, usually blue or yellow. Ovary long-pedicellate. Style divided into 3 flat petaloid branches, these apically forked into 2 crests; stigma transverse and abaxial below base of crests. Anthers appressed to the style branches. Fruit a capsule. Derivation of name: (originally Morea) named after Robert More, Esquire of Shropshire, botanist and natural historian, who was a contemporary of Miller and Linnaeus. The name was altered by Linnaeus into Moraea, presumably in honour of Linaeus's father-in-law Johan Moraeus, Worldwide: 120 species in tropical and South Africa |
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Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | Links to maps | FZ divisions | Content |
| carsonii Baker | Altitude Rainfall Geology | E | Description, Image |
| inyangani Goldblatt[End] | Altitude Rainfall Geology | E | Description |
| muddii N.E. Br. | Altitude Rainfall Geology | E | Description |
| natalensis Baker | Altitude Rainfall Geology | N,W,C,S | Description, Image |
| schimperi (Hochst.) Pic.Serm. | Altitude Rainfall Geology | C,E | Description |
| spathulata (L.f.) Klatt | Altitude Rainfall Geology | E | Description, Image |
| stricta Baker | Altitude Rainfall Geology | E | Description |
| thomsonii Baker | Altitude Rainfall Geology | E | Description |
Other sources of information about Moraea:
Flora of Mozambique: MoraeaePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Moraea
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Moraea
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Moraea
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Moraea
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Moraea
Kew Monocotyledon checklist: Moraea
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