Moraea ramosissima round-tipped tepals

    Moraea ramosissima round-tipped tepals
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Judd Kirkel Welwitch

    Moraea ramosissima produces many iris-like flowers on branched stems, subtended by leathery, leaf-like spathes.

    The oblong, round-tipped tepals in two concentric whorls spread their upper parts. All the tepals are similar, the ones in the inner whorl narrower, slightly shorter and lacking the brown-dotted nectar guides at the bases of the outer ones. The three flattened style branches angle up and out over the corolla cup, their tips forked (Euston-Brown and Kruger, 2023; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Manning, 2007; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; Andrew, 2017; iNaturalist).

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