Re: ID requested on scarlet lawn weed

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From: Richard Wright
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:06

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On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:52:05 +1100, Richard Wright
<richwrigREMOVE@tig.com.au> wrote:

>This plant with scarlet flowers is currently (early summer) growing in
>a Sydney park. The environment is regularly mown lawn.
>
>The plant is growing among buffalo grass, and the leaves look for all
>the world like that grass. The leaves have only ribs, so I guess it is
>a monocot.
>
>There is a hazel nut sized, but oval shaped, brown corm at the base of
>the stem.
>
>What is this plant?
>
>http://www.box.net/shared/static/ipl86k6m2j.jpg

Thanks to Peter and Loosecannon.

Following those leads, I now think it is a variety of Moraea miniata.

See, for example:

http://www.weeds.org.au/cgi-bin/weedident.cgi?tpl=plant.tpl&state=&s=&ibra=all&card=H20

The leaves on the specimen I found have been severely truncated by
lawn mowing.

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