Novelties in the largely sub-Saharan genus Moraea Mill. (Iridaceae: Iridoideae), now comprising over 215 species (Goldblatt & Manning 2009), are still being regularly discovered in southern Africa. Florally diverse, Moraea is recognized in Iridoideae by a bifacial and channelled (rarely terete or plane) leaf blade, and corms of a single internode derived from a lateral bud. Most species have Iris-like flowers with flattened, petaloid style branches to which the stamens are appressed (Goldblatt 1986), but the occurrence of a variety of other floral types (Goldblatt 1998) makes exact floral definition of the genus impractical, although most species have free tepals and partially to completely united filaments.
Notes on Moraea Subg. Visciramosa (Iridoideae), including the new species Moraea Saldanhensis from the Atlantic coast of South Africa, recognition of M. Lnconspicua Subsp. Namaquensis, and pollination biology in M. Rivulicola
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