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Moraea elegans Jacq.

Bustard Tulp; Elegant Tulp

Iridaceae · Cape Provinces · listed by its genus as a bulb, tuber or caudex

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Moraea elegans, photograph (c) Simon Tamblyn, some rights reserved (CC BY)Moraea elegans, photograph scott.zona from Miami, Florida, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMoraea elegans, photograph SAplants, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 4 photographs ›

Cultivation

Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex, listed under the genus Moraea in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “tuberous geophyte”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Moraea in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “tuberous geophyte”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeCape Provinces · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-34.35, 19.75 · in the densest population, 6 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“tuberous geophyte” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 6 georeferenced records inside the native range; none carries a licence permitting republication, so the map shows no points. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species.
How this section is made
The map marker: the centre of the tenth-degree cell nearest the middle (no openly licensed record lies in the population, so no record's coordinates are published) of the densest 1° population of the 6 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Simon Tamblyn, some rights reserved (CC BY); scott.zona from Miami, Florida, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; SAplants, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Moraea 30 in the reference

Moraea alpina Moraea alpina Alpine Tulp Photo: CC BY, Ronald OlivierMoraea alticola Moraea alticola Iridaceae Photo: CC BY, Morten RossMoraea aristata Moraea aristata Blue-Eye Flappie Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloMoraea atropunctata Moraea atropunctata Spotty Flappy Photo: CC BY-SA, SAplantsMoraea bipartita Moraea bipartita Blue tulp Photo: CC BY-SA, kevin koenMoraea bituminosa Moraea bituminosa Tar Tulp Photo: CC BY, Vicente LopesMoraea collina Moraea collina Cape tulip Photo: CC BY, De Waal HugoMoraea comptonii Moraea comptonii Iridaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedMoraea flaccida Moraea flaccida One-leaf Cape-tulip Photo: CC BY, Cricket RaspetMoraea fugacissima Moraea fugacissima Lunch Clockflower Photo: CC BY, Andrew AllenMoraea fugax Moraea fugax Hottentot Nut Photo: CC BY, Caroline VogetMoraea gigandra Moraea gigandra Great Flappie Photo: CC BY, desertnaturalist all 31 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Homeria elegans; Homeria metelerkampiae; Homeria metelerkanpiae; Homeria spicata; Moraea spicata and 1 more. (GBIF Backbone)

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataiNaturalist

The record

Family
Iridaceae
Described by
Jacq.
Native to
Cape Provinces
Wild records
6 in range · 0 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 4 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (4 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 1 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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