Citation: Miller, Figs. Pl. 159:t. 238 (1758).

Derivation: After Robert More, 1703-1780, English botanist.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Deciduous perennial herbs, dormant in summer; corm globose, with a fibrous tunic; leaves few, basal, linear, more or less channelled, with a sheathing base; stem erect, terete, often with branches subtended by reduced sheathing stem bracts.

Inflorescence of a few pedunculate cymes, with herbaceous to scarious spathes; flowers few between paired closely sheathing spathe bracts, pedicellate, fugacious, actinomorphic; perianth-segments free, unequal, clawed at the base; outer 3 lobes patent to deflexed; inner lobes smaller, erect to patent, often 3-fid or vestigial; filaments free or partly connate; anthers basifixed, oblong-linear; style branches 3, flattened, petaloid-winged, each arched over a stamen, with a 2-fid terminal crest exceeding the flap-shaped stigma.

Capsule clavate to globose, long-pedicellate, exserted from the spathes; seeds numerous, small, angular, dark-brown.

Distribution:  (P. Goldblatt (1976) Ann. Miss. Bot. Gard. 63:657-786.) 95 species native to southern Africa and Madagascar; many are cultivated as ornamentals and about 3 are naturalised in Australia.

Biology: No text

Key to Species:

1. Leaves 3 or 4; stem pubescent	M. vegeta 4.
1. Leaves 1 or 2; stem glabrous
2. Perianth-segments similar, entire	M. fugax 3.
2. Inner 3 perianth-segments 3-fid, much smaller than the outer 3
3. Flowers white with a dark-blue centre	M. aristata 1.
3. Flower yellow, marked with brown in the centre	M. bellendenii 2.

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