{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Moraea viscaria (5).JPG | image_caption = ''Moraea viscaria'' | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Moraea | authority = Mill. | type_species = ''Moraea viscaria'' | type_species_authority = (L.f.) Ker Gawl. | synonyms = {{hidden begin|title = List}} * ''Barnardiella'' Goldblatt * ''Diaphane'' Salisb. * ''Freuchenia'' Eckl. * ''Galaxia'' Thunb. * ''Gynandriris'' Parl. * ''Helixyra'' Salisb. ex N.E.Br. * ''Hexaglottis'' Vent. * ''Homeria'' Vent. * ''Hymenostigma'' Hochst. * ''Iridopsis'' Welw. ex Baker * ''Jania'' Schult. & Schult.f. * ''Phaianthes'' Raf. * ''Plantia'' Herb. in Lindl. * ''Rheome'' Goldblatt * ''Roggeveldia'' Goldblatt * ''Sessilistigma'' Goldblatt * ''Sisyrinchium'' Mill. nom. illeg. * ''Vieusseuxia'' D.Delaroche {{hidden end}} |synonyms_ref = <ref>{{cite web|url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=323692|title=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families}}</ref> }}
'''''Moraea''''', the '''Cape tulips''',<ref>{{PLANTS|id=MORAE|taxon=Moraea|accessdate=13 July 2015}}</ref> is a genus of plants in the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1758. The group is widespread across Africa, the Mediterranean, and central and southwestern Asia.<ref>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=323692 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref> The genus name is a tribute to the English botanist Robert More.<ref name=Goldblatt2008>{{cite book |author1=Manning, John |author2=Goldblatt, Peter |title=The Iris Family: Natural History & Classification |publisher=Timber Press |location=Portland, Oregon|pages=91–93 |year=2008|isbn=978-0-88192-897-6}}</ref>
== Description == Moraeas have iris-like flowers.<ref>{{cite book |last=Dyer |first=R. Allen |title=The Genera of Southern African Flowering Plants |isbn=0-621-02854-1 |year=1975 }}</ref> The corms of some species have been used as food, however they are usually small and some species have an unpleasant taste, and some are poisonous.<ref name="isbn0-908387-20-2">{{cite book |author1=Hallowes, Desmond |author2=Fox, Francis William |author3=Young, Marion Memma Norwood |title=Food from the veld: edible wild plants of southern Africa botanically identified and described |publisher=Delta Books |location=New York |year=1982 |isbn=0-908387-20-2 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Watt |first=John Mitchell |last2=Breyer-Brandwijk |first2=Maria Gerdina |title=The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa |edition=2nd |publisher=E & S Livingstone |location=Edinburgh |year=1962 |oclc=1279138 }}</ref>
== Taxonomy == The following species are recognised in the genus ''Moraea'':<ref>{{Cite web |title=Moraea Mill. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331244-2 |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=Plants of the World Online |language=en}}</ref> {{Multiple image | direction = horizontal | header = Selected species | align = right | width = 200 | image1 = Moraea bellendenii Signal Hill.jpg | caption1 = ''Moraea bellendenii'' | image2 = Moraea collina flower.JPG | caption2 = ''Moraea collina'' | image3 = Moraea flaccida flower.JPG | caption3 = ''Moraea flaccida'' | image4 = Moraea gawleri. Sprengel Rondebosch common (2).jpg | caption4 = ''Moraea gawleri'' | image5 = Moraea macronyx flower.jpg | caption5 = ''Moraea macronyx'' | image6 = Moraea_fugax_subsp.fugax.jpg | caption6 = ''Moraea neglecta'' | image7 = Moraea ramosissima..jpg | caption7 = ''Moraea ramosissima'' | image8 = Moraea tricuspidata (1).jpg | caption8 = ''Moraea tricuspidata'' | image9 = Moraea tricolor.jpg | caption9 = ''Moraea tricolor'' | image10 = Moraea virgata.jpg | caption10 = ''Moraea virgata'' | total_width = 300 | perrow = 2 }} {{div col|colwidth=26em}}
*''Moraea acocksii'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea afro-orientalis'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea albicuspa'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea albiflora'' {{small|(G.J.Lewis) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea algoensis'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea alpina'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea alticola'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea amabilis'' {{small|Diels}} *''Moraea amissa'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea angolensis'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea angulata'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea angusta'' {{small|(Thunb.) Ker Gawl.}} *''Moraea anomala'' {{small|G.J.Lewis}} *''Moraea ardesiaca'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea aristata'' {{small|(D.Delaroche) Asch. & Graebn.}} *''Moraea aspera'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea atromontana'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea atropunctata'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea australis'' {{small|(Goldblatt) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea autumnalis'' {{small|(Goldblatt) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea balundana'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea barkerae'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea barnardiella'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea barnardii'' {{small|L.Bolus}} *''Moraea bella'' {{small|Harms}} *''Moraea bellendenii'' {{small|(Sweet) N.E.Br.}} *''Moraea bifida'' {{small|(L.Bolus) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea bipartita'' {{small|L.Bolus}} *''Moraea bituminosa'' {{small|(L.f.) Ker Gawl.}} *''Moraea bolusii'' {{small|Baker}} *''Moraea bovonei'' {{small|Chiov.}} *''Moraea brachygyne'' {{small|(Schltr.) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea brevifolia'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea brevistyla'' {{small|(Goldblatt) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea brevituba'' {{small|(Goldblatt) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea britteniae'' {{small|(L.Bolus) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea bubalina'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea bulbillifera'' {{small|(G.J.Lewis) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea caeca'' {{small|Barnard ex Goldblatt}} *''Moraea calcicola'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea callista'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea cantharophila'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea carnea'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea carsonii'' {{small|Baker}} *''Moraea cedarmontana'' {{small|(Goldblatt) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea cedarmonticola'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea ciliata'' {{small|(L.f.) Ker Gawl.}} *''Moraea cistiflora'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea citrina'' {{small|(G.J.Lewis) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea clavata'' {{small|R.C.Foster}} *''Moraea collina'' {{small|Thunb.}} *''Moraea comptonii'' {{small|(L.Bolus) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea contorta'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea cookii'' {{small|(L.Bolus) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea cooperi'' {{small|Baker}} *''Moraea crispa'' {{small|Thunb.}} *''Moraea cuspidata'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea debilis'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea decipiens'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea deltoidea'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea demissa'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea deserticola'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea doleritica'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea dracomontana'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea eburnea'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea elegans'' {{small|Jacq.}} *''Moraea elliotii'' {{small|Baker}} *''Moraea elsiae'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea exiliflora'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea falcifolia'' {{small|Klatt}} *''Moraea fenestralis'' {{small|(Goldblatt & E.G.H.Oliv.) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea fenestrata'' {{small|(Goldblatt) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea fergusoniae'' {{small|L.Bolus}} *''Moraea filamentosa'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea filicaulis'' {{small|Baker}} *''Moraea fistulosa'' {{small|(Goldblatt) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea flaccida'' {{small|(Sweet) Steud.}} *''Moraea flava'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea flavescens'' {{small|(Goldblatt) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea flexicaulis'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea fragrans'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea fugacissima'' {{small|(L.f.) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea fugax'' {{small|(D.Delaroche) Jacq.}} *''Moraea fuscomontana'' {{small|(Goldblatt) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea galaxia'' {{small|(L.f.) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea galpinii'' {{small|(Baker) N.E.Br.}} *''Moraea garipensis'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea gawleri'' {{small|Spreng.}} *''Moraea geminifolia'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea gigandra'' {{small|L.Bolus}} *''Moraea gracilenta'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea graminicola'' {{small|Oberm.}} *''Moraea grandis'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea graniticola'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea hainebachiana'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea helicoidea'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea helmei'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea herrei'' {{small|(L.Bolus) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea hesperantha'' {{small|(Goldblatt) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea hexaglottis'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea hiemalis'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea huttonii'' {{small|(Baker) Oberm.}} *''Moraea inclinata'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea inconspicua'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea incurva'' {{small|G.J.Lewis}} *''Moraea indecora'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea insolens'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea intermedia'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea inyangani'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea iringensis'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea kamiesensis'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea kamiesmontana'' {{small|(Goldblatt) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea karooica'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea knersvlaktensis'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea lazulina'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea lewisiae'' {{small|(Goldblatt) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea lilacina'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea linderi'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea longiaristata'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea longiflora'' {{small|Ker Gawl.}} *''Moraea longifolia'' {{small|(Jacq.) Pers.}} *''Moraea longipes'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea longistyla'' {{small|(Goldblatt) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea loubseri'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea louisabolusiae'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea lugubris'' {{small|(Salisb.) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea lurida'' {{small|Ker Gawl.}} *''Moraea luteoalba'' {{small|(Goldblatt) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea macgregoriorum'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea macrantha'' {{small|Baker}} *''Moraea macrocarpa'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea macronyx'' {{small|G.J.Lewis}} *''Moraea margaretae'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea marginata'' {{small|J.C.Manning & Goldblatt}} *''Moraea marionae'' {{small|N.E.Br.}} *''Moraea marlothii'' {{small|(L.Bolus) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea maximiliani'' {{small|(Schltr.) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea mediterranea'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea melanops'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea miniata'' {{small|Andrews}} *''Moraea minima'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea minor'' {{small|Eckl.}} *''Moraea modesta'' {{small|Killick}} *''Moraea moggii'' {{small|N.E.Br.}} *''Moraea monticola'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea muddii'' {{small|N.E.Br.}} *''Moraea mutila'' {{small|(Eckl.) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea namaquamontana'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea namaquana'' {{small|(Goldblatt) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea namibensis'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea nana'' {{small|(L.Bolus) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea natalensis'' {{small|Baker}} *''Moraea neglecta'' {{small|G.J.Lewis}} *''Moraea niassensis'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea nubigena'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea ochroleuca'' {{small|(Salisb.) Drapiez}} *''Moraea ogamana'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea orthrosantha'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea pallida'' {{small|(Baker) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea papilionacea'' {{small|(L.f.) Ker Gawl.}} *''Moraea patens'' {{small|(Goldblatt) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea pearsonii'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea pendula'' {{small|(Goldblatt) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea petricola'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea pilifolia'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea polyanthos'' {{small|L.f.}} *''Moraea polystachya'' {{small|(Thunb.) Ker Gawl.}} *''Moraea pritzeliana'' {{small|Diels}} *''Moraea pseudospicata'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea pubiflora'' {{small|N.E.Br.}} *''Moraea pyrophila'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea quartzicola'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea radians'' {{small|(Goldblatt) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea ramosissima'' {{small|(L.f.) Druce}} *''Moraea reflexa'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea regalis'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea reticulata'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea rigidifolia'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea riparia'' {{small|(Goldblatt) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea rivulicola'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea robusta'' {{small|(Goldblatt) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea saldanhensis'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea saxicola'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea schimperi'' {{small|(Hochst.) Pic.Serm.}} *''Moraea schlechteri'' {{small|(L.Bolus) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea serpentina'' {{small|Baker}} *''Moraea serratostyla'' {{small|(Goldblatt) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea setifolia'' {{small|(L.f.) Druce}} *''Moraea simplex'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea simulans'' {{small|Baker}} *''Moraea singularis'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea sisyrinchium'' {{small|(L.) Ker Gawl.}} *''Moraea spathulata'' {{small|(L.f.) Klatt}} *''Moraea speciosa'' {{small|(L.Bolus) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea stagnalis'' {{small|(Goldblatt) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea striata'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea stricta'' {{small|Baker}} *''Moraea tanquana'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea tanzanica'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea teretifolia'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea textilis'' {{small|(Welw. ex Baker) Baker}} *''Moraea thermarum'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea thomasiae'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea thomsonii'' {{small|Baker}} *''Moraea tortilis'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea tricolor'' {{small|Andrews}} *''Moraea tricuspidata'' {{small|(L.f.) G.J.Lewis}} *''Moraea trifida'' {{small|R.C.Foster}} *''Moraea tripetala'' {{small|(L.f.) Ker Gawl.}} *''Moraea tulbaghensis'' {{small|L.Bolus}} *''Moraea umbellata'' {{small|Thunb.}} *''Moraea unguiculata'' {{small|Ker Gawl.}} *''Moraea unibracteata'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea unifoliata'' {{small|R.C.Foster}} *''Moraea upembana'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea vallisavium'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea vallisbelli'' {{small|(Goldblatt) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea variabilis'' {{small|(G.J.Lewis) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea vegeta'' {{small|L.}} *''Moraea venenata'' {{small|Dinter}} *''Moraea ventricosa'' {{small|Baker}} *''Moraea verdickii'' {{small|De Wild.}} *''Moraea verecunda'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea versicolor'' {{small|(Salisb. ex Klatt) Goldblatt}} *''Moraea vespertina'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea vigilans'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea villosa'' {{small|(Ker Gawl.) Ker Gawl.}} *''Moraea virgata'' {{small|Jacq.}} *''Moraea viscaria'' {{small|(L.f.) Ker Gawl.}} *''Moraea vlokii'' {{small|Goldblatt}} *''Moraea vuvuzela'' {{small|Goldblatt & J.C.Manning}} *''Moraea worcesterensis'' {{small|Goldblatt}} {{div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Commons category-inline|Moraea|''Moraea''}} * {{AfricanPlants|Moraea}}
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Category:Moraea Category:Iridaceae genera Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Category:Taxa named by Philip Miller