Moraea bulbillifera (G.J.Lewis) Goldblatt

Plants 300-500(-600) mm high. Corm 10-20 mm diam., often with many small cormlets around base; tunics of coarse, black fibres. Stem sometimes ± trailing or suberect, usually much-branched, flexed above sheath of foliage leaf and above sheathing leaves, sometimes bearing several to many cormlets in aerial axils, with attenuate sheathing leaves 3.5-8.0 mm long. Foliage leaf solitary, usually inserted at or near ground level, rarely some distance above ground, exceeding stem, channelled, 5-10 mm wide. Rhipidial spathes attenuate, inner 40-80 mm long, elongating after flowering to enclose developing capsules, outer ± 1/2 as long at flowering. Flowers fugaceous, pale or deep yellow, occasionally pale pink or flushed orange-pink, all tepal limbs with dark yellow nectar guides at bases spotted green, spreading, tepal claws suberect, forming a small narrow cup 7-10 mm deep, enclosing filaments and lower part of anthers; outer tepals obovate, 23-38 x 10-16 mm, claws 9-11 mm long, inner tepals slightly smaller, 7-12 mm wide. Filaments united in a cylindric column 6-8 mm long, papillate or smooth; anthers 4-6 mm long, diverging, often slightly exceeding style branches, yellow; pollen yellow. Ovary 7-10(-13) mm long; style branches diverging, 2.5-6.0 mm long, stigma lobes upright, pressed against anthers, receptive laterally, crests 1-2 mm long, directed inward. Capsules 17-20(-22) mm long, narrowly club-shaped. Seeds angular.