Moraea demissa Goldblatt

Plants small, 70-200 mm high. Corm 5-10 mm diam.; tunics of black or brown, wiry or ± soft-textured fibres. Stem sharply flexed above sheath of foliage leaf, few-to several-branched, branches also flexed, bearing attenuate sheathing leaves 150-300 mm long. Foliage leaf solitary, inserted shortly to well above ground, linear, exceeding stem, channelled, 2-3 mm wide. Rhipidial spathes attenuate, inner initially 20-40(-60) mm long, later elongating to enclose developing capsules, outer 15-25 mm long. Flowers fugaceous, pale to deep yellow, tepals limbs with small deep yellow nectar guides at bases, spreading, claws suberect, forming a narrow cup ± 3 mm deep including lower 1/2 of filament column; outer tepals oblong, 10-12 x ± 6 mm, claws 2-3 mm long, inner tepals lanceolate, 9-11 x 4 mm. Filaments united in a smooth cylindric column 5-6 mm long; anthers 1.5-2.0 mm long, diverging from base, yellow; pollen yellow. Ovary ± cylindric, 5-8 mm long, included; style branches 1.5-2.0 mm long, flattened, stigma bilobed, reaching middle to upper part of anthers, stigmatic laterally, crests very short, often obscured by anthers. Capsules clavate-cylindric, 8-11 mm long, included. Seeds angular.