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1265.000 Moraea
HOMERIA Vent.
Description of the genus
Perennial herbs, dying back each year, with corms. Foliage leaves 1-several. Inflorescence composed of rhipidia; rhipidia 1 per branch or crowded terminally, each enclosed in a pair of spathes. Flowers actinomorphic, Iris-like, usually blue or yellow. Ovary long-pedicellate. Style divided into 3 flat petaloid branches, these apically forked into 2 crests; stigma transverse and abaxial below base of crests. Anthers appressed to the style branches. Fruit a capsule. Derivation of name: (originally Morea) named after Robert More, Esquire of Shropshire, botanist and natural historian, who was a contemporary of Miller and Linnaeus. The name was altered by Linnaeus into Moraea, presumably in honour of Linaeus's father-in-law Johan Moraeus, Worldwide: 120 species in tropical and South Africa Caprivi: 3 cultivated taxa. |
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Links to cultivated taxa View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | Content |
| carsonii Baker | Description, Image |
| schimperi (Hochst.) Pic.Serm. | Description, Image |
| ventricosa Baker |
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Flora of Botswana: MoraeaFlora of Malawi: Moraea
Flora of Mozambique: Moraea
Flora of Zambia: Moraea
Flora of Zimbabwe: Moraea
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): MoraeaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Moraea
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Moraea
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Moraea
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Moraea
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Moraea
JSTOR Plant Science: Moraea
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Moraea
Plants of the World Online: Moraea
Tropicos: Moraea
Wikipedia: Moraea
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