Moraea albicuspa is a perennial that grows leaves and a flower stalk annually from a corm with a fibrous tunic. The plants tend to form substantial clumps, making it easier to spot them in the grass.
Several strap-shaped leaves without midribs are grown. Functional pollination options, dependent on the available insect attributes in the ecological mix where the plants occur, has exerted great influence on the evolution of Iridaceae and particularly Moraea flower structures. This gives us the wide variety of flower shapes seen in South Africa when travelling through mountain, desert, fynbos or scrubland.
Albicuspa means tipped with white sharp points.
The species distribution is in mountains of KwaZulu-Natal and the eastern Cape.
The habitat is high elevation, moist grassland. M. albicuspa has a stable population, not considered threatened in habitat early in the twenty first century (Wikipedia; www.pacificbulbsociety.org; http://redlist.sanbi.org).