Moraea brachygyne (Schltr.) Goldblatt

Plants mostly small, 80-250 mm high. Corms 7-10 mm diam.; tunics of coarse, wiry black fibres. Stem flexed outward above sheath of foliage leaf above each sheathing leaf, usually branched, sometimes repeatedly, with attenuate sheathing leaves 15-20(-30) mm long at upper nodes. Foliage leaf solitary, inserted well above ground, linear, channelled to ± flat, exceeding stem, 2-4 mm wide. Rhipidial spathes attenuate, inner 30-50 mm long, outer ± half as long. Flowers fugaceous, salmon-pink, all tepal limbs with yellow nectar guides at bases, spreading, claws erect, forming a shallow cup; outer tepals obovate to pandurate, 18-22 x 6-9 mm, claws ± 4 mm long, tapering to narrow base, inner tepals ± as long as outer, 5-6 mm wide. Filaments united in a slender, cylindric column 6-8 mm long, long-papillate in lower 1/2; anthers 2.5-3.0 mm long, erect, contiguous, collapsing after anthesis, then ± 2 mm long. Ovary ± cylindric, 5-6 mm long, exserted; style branches concealed by anthers, short, bifurcate, stigmatic at tips, apices of style branches emerging between anthers, crests lacking. Capsules ellipsoid, 8-10 mm long. Seeds angular.