Moraea albiflora (G.J.Lewis) Goldblatt

Plants small, inconspicuous, mostly up to 30 mm high. Corm 8-12 mm diam.; tunics fibrous with prominent vertical ribs. Stem underground at flowering. Leaves in a basal cluster, spreading to ± prostrate, linear, channelled, 30-60 x ± 3 mm, margins hyaline, sparsely ciliate. Rhipidial spathes hardly distinct from leaves, with 2 to 4 flowers per plant. Flowers fugaceous, salver-shaped with tepals cupped below, white with yellow cup; perianth tube 10-13 mm long; tepals subequal, obovate, spreading in upper half, 9-12 x 3-4 mm. Filaments united in ± cylindric column ± 4 mm long; anthers sessile, erect, ± 1.5 mm long. Ovary ovoid, ± 3 mm long; style slender, dividing ± opposite lower 1/3 to middle of anthers, branches deeply and irregularly fringed, tangled in anthers. Capsules and seeds unknown.