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Moraea Mill.

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Moraea Mill., Fig. Pl. Gard. Dict. 2, 159, t. 238 (1758)
Moraea Mill.

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New Zealand
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Mill.
Mill.
1758
159, t. 238
ICN
Moraea Mill.
genus
Moraea

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Moraea

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Corm globose; tunic of coarse woody fibres. Basal leaves 1-3, bifacial. Inflorescence simple to corymbose. Flowers funnel-shaped, fugacious, pedicelled, 2-4 opening successively within terminal paired spathe-valves; tube short or 0; lobes subequal, spreading. Stamens with filaments united in a tube round style. Style-branches short, broadly cuneate, truncate, or shortly bifid occasionally with 2 very small incurved crests. Spp. 37, all of S.Africa. Adventive sp. 1.

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Cultivated
New Zealand
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Recorded as heterotypic synonym Galaxia

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Moraea Mill.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District

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e57d756a-ad42-4f6c-807b-e66581c41181
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13 March 2002
18 February 2014
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