Moraea inconspicua Goldblatt

Plants 200-450 mm high. Corm 15-20 mm diam.; tunics brown, ± woody or becoming fibrous, sticky-bituminous on inner surfaces, often persisting with cataphylls to form a collar around base. Stem with up to 3 branches at most aerial nodes, viscous below nodes, with cauline sheathing leaves, ± obtuse or truncate. Foliage leaves 2, linear, either channelled and falcate to trailing or coiled with plane surface, 2-3 mm wide. Rhipidial spathes acute to ± obtuse, becoming dry above, often becoming lacerated, inner 15-30 mm long, outer slightly shorter. Flowers fugaceous, yellow, creamy pink, white or brown, outer tepal limbs with yellow nectar guides at bases; outer tepals 12-18(25) x 5-7 mm, usually reflexed ± 90º (sometimes less), claws 4-8 mm long, 1/2-2/3 as long as limbs, scented of vanilla; inner tepals narrower, usually slightly shorter than outer, limbs similarly reflexed. Filaments 3.5-8.0 mm long, free but contiguous or united in lower part; anthers 2-4 mm long; pollen yellow or orange-red. Ovary ± 3 mm long, included or exserted, style branches 3-6 mm long, crests (1.5-)3.0-10.0 mm long. Capsules broadly ovoid-globose, (6-)7-10 mm long.