Botanical name

Moraea inconspicua

Family

Iridaceae
Moraea inconspicua
Moraea inconspicua
Moraea inconspicua
Moraea inconspicua
Moraea inconspicua
Moraea inconspicua

Description

Cormous geophyte up to 45cm. Stem repeatedly branched, sticky below the nodes. Leaves two, the lower basal, the upper attached to the lowest node, 3-5mm wide, linear, flat or channelled, trailing or loosely coiled. Flowers small, yellow to brown or cream, enclosed in fibrotic, acute spathes; tepals unequal, the outer larger 13-18mm long, both inner and outer tepals limbs laxly to strongly reflexed.

Habitat

Sandy and clay slopes

Flower Date

September to November