Moraea polyanthos posing a question

The published photos of Moraea polyanthos show considerable flower variation. Apart from bearing many flowers as the specific name indicates, they differ in markings, colours and tepal shapes.

The plant in picture, photographed in the east of the Little Karoo, may be yet another guise of M. polyanthos, although the rarer, more range-restricted M. lazulina tempts as the possible answer as to what this is. That plant, named for lapis lazuli, the blue gemstone, does grow in the Little Karoo from Barrydale to De Rust.

The decision went the M. polyanthos way, however, because the style branches are white and close together, the M. lazulina ones blue and wider apart (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; iNaturalist; https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org; http://redlist.sanbi.org).