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.
