Moraea nana (L.Bolus) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning

Plants 100-300 mm high. Corm globose-ovoid, 10-15 mm diam., slightly asymmetric with a fibrous downward extension on one side; tunics brown, inner layers unbroken, outer layers fragmenting in sections held together by cross fibres or ± fibrous with age. Stem consisting of one long aerial internode with leaves and branches clustered close to first aerial node, with ± dry, fibrous cataphylls. Leaves 3 or 4, inserted close together at and above first above ground aerial node, lowermost longest, blades leathery, up to 400 mm long, channelled, straight or falcate to trailing. Rhipidial spathes green, leathery, 25-40 mm long, apices often dark brown, sometimes truncate or lacerate, outer slightly longer or shorter than inner, usually sheathing below, distally free and recurved. Flowers fugaceous, yellow to buff-coloured or salmon-orange, tepals finely veined dark brown, often flushed brown outside, limbs of all or only outer tepals with brighter yellow nectar guides at bases edged brown; outer tepals 19-25 x 10-14 mm, claws narrow, 2-4 mm long, ascending, forming a narrow cup around base of filaments, limbs spreading, ± undulate, inner tepals shorter, up to 10 mm wide. Filaments 4-5 mm long, united in lower 1.5-3.0 mm; anthers 4-5 mm long, initially erect and parallel, arching inward after anthesis, yellow; pollen yellow. Ovary ± cylindric, 4-6 mm long, exserted or partly (entirely) included in spathes; style branches divided almost to base into two slender ascending arms, ± 5 mm long, extending either side of subtending filament. Capsules 6-10 mm long, ± barrel-shaped, 3-4 mm wide. Seeds small, angular.