Moraea ochroleuca Drapiez

Plants medium to large, 350-750 mm high. Corm 15-25 mm diam.; tunics of coarse, black fibres. Stem 1-to several-branched from upper or all nodes, with attenuate sheathing leaves at upper nodes, 60-70 mm long. Foliage leaves usually solitary, sometimes 2(3), lowermost inserted above ground (sometimes up to 150 mm), channelled, exceeding stem, often trailing above, 6-15 mm wide, remaining leaves if present shorter. Rhipidial spathes attenuate, inner (50-)60-80 mm long, outer ± 1/2 as long. Flowers long-lived, yellow entirely, or with orange floral cup, rarely orange entirely, strongly scented, tepal claws forming a wide cup and secreting nectar from veins on surface, limbs spreading; outer tepals obovate, 30-40 x 15-17 mm, claws 13-16 mm long, inner tepals similar, slightly smaller. Filaments united in a slender column 7-10 mm long, tapering from base to apex; anthers 4.5-8.0 mm long, ± straight, narrowly diverging, yellow; pollen yellow. Ovary cylindric, 13-16 mm long; style branches 5.0-6.5 mm long, slightly narrower than anthers, stigma bilobed, crests lacking. Capsules cylindric, 20-40 mm long, with short beak ± 1 mm long. Seeds angular.