Moraea alticola flower

The flowers of Moraea alticola are pale yellow with darker yellow nectar guides on the spreading outer tepals. These darker patches are rounded, each shaped like half an ellipse or slightly more. Faint lines indicating veins cross the tepal surfaces. The inner three tepals are smaller, narrower and erect, but similarly pale yellow and without the nectar guides. 

Small network-like remains of the inner cataphyll, the plant’s earliest leaf growth, may be seen around the stem and leaf at the base of the plant, discarded from time to time. This plant was seen flowering in November in the Drakensberg (Pooley, 1998; iNaturalist; iSpot; www.pacificbulbsociety.org).