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"Richard Wright" <richwrigREMOVE@tig.com.au> wrote in message 
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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.

To be honest I have that one growing on my property and it is more of an 
orange/pink flower whereas your photo shows the flower as red. Even though a 
lawnmower has gone over it the leaf structure is different. I originally 
thought is could be a Babiana and even a Tritonia but the reds in Babiana 
are different and Tritonia's don't appear to come in red. The search goes on 
I think....

Richard