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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 Malawi: 10 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| bella Harms | N,C | Description, Image |
| carsonii Baker | N,C | Description, Image |
| elliotii Baker | C | |
| macrantha Baker | N | Description, Image |
| natalensis Baker | N,C | Description, Image |
| schimperi (Hochst.) Pic.Serm. | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| stricta Baker | N,S | Description, Image |
| tanzanica Goldblatt | N | |
| thomsonii Baker | C | Description |
| verdickii De Wild. | C,S | Description, Image |
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