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HOMERIA Vent.
Perennial herbs, dying back each year, with corms. Foliage leaves 1-several. Inflorescence composed of rhipidia; rhipidia 1 per branch or crowded terminally, each enclosed in a pair of spathes. Flowers actinomorphic, Iris-like, usually blue or yellow. Ovary long-pedicellate. Style divided into 3 flat petaloid branches, these apically forked into 2 crests; stigma transverse and abaxial below base of crests. Anthers appressed to the style branches. Fruit a capsule. Derivation of name: (originally Morea) named after Robert More, Esquire of Shropshire, botanist and natural historian, who was a contemporary of Miller and Linnaeus. The name was altered by Linnaeus into Moraea, presumably in honour of Linaeus's father-in-law Johan Moraeus, Worldwide: 120 species in tropical and South Africa Botswana: 4 taxa. |
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Species | FZ divisions | Content |
carsonii Baker | SW | Description, Image |
elliotii Baker | ||
pallida (Baker) Goldblatt | SE | |
simulans Baker | SE |
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