Moraea filamentosa Goldblatt & J.C.Manning

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Iridaceae > Moraea

Characteristics

Plants acaulescent, ± 20 mm high, including flowers. Corms ± 12 mm diam.; tunics of medium-textured, shaggy fibres. Foliage leaves several, clustered at base, blades up to 10 mm long, falcate, channelled, up to 1.2 mm wide when opened flat, with thickened, hyaline main vein on abaxial surface, apex obtuse, margins hyaline, minutely ciliate. Rhipidial spathes: outer not distinct from leaves, with broad, membranous sheaths, inner ± membranous, floral bracts membranous, dry, elongate, often irregularly torn, ± as long as leaves. Flowers fugaceous?, possibly white, markings and orientation of tepals not known; outer tepals lanceolate, ± 14 x 4 mm, claws ± 5 mm long, limbs probably spreading, inner tepals ± 12 x 2 mm, possibly erect. Filaments ± 4.5 mm long, united in lower half; anthers ± 2.5 mm long, evidently yellow. Ovary elongate, fertile part club-shaped, ± 5 mm long; style branches broad, ± 4 mm long, crests triangular, ± 4 mm long, erect. Capsules and seeds unknown.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.02
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Nitrogen fixer -
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Environment

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Usage

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Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 30 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 12 - 15
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Distribution

Moraea filamentosa world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77136565-1
WFO ID wfo-0001338468
COL ID 44C59
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Moraea filamentosa