Wow, Roy, did you ever open a can of worms. But it's a really interesting can, so thanks! I hadn't heard of Moraea hainebachiana before, so I did some searching. That led to this website in Hebrew: http://fatplant.blogspot.com/2012_11_25_archive.ht… The auto-translated version of the site seems to say that the proceeds of the auction were used to buy the field where the flowers grow. Can anyone confirm that? If true, it'd be the nicest bit of plant conservation news I've heard in a while. What a great concept -- auction the name of the species in order to save it. As the quasi-translated site says, "countless endings happy." I thought the new species looked a lot like Moraea tripetala, so I did more research. That led me to this monograph from late 2012 by Goldblatt and Manning: http://abcjournal.org/index.php/ABC/… Sure enough, they blew up Moraea tripetala into NINE separate species plus three subspecies. That's ironic, since Goldblatt was the author who originally lumped together several species into M. tripetala. Oh well: a foolish consistency, etc. Here's an excerpt from the article's summary: "Field and laboratory research has shown that the Moraea tripetala complex of western South Africa...has a pattern of morphological and cytological variation too complex to be accommodated in a single species....We propose recognizing nine species and three additional subspecies for plants currently assigned to M. tripetala. M. grandis, from the western Karoo, has virtually free filaments and leaves often ± plane distally; closely allied M. amabilis, also with ± free filaments and often hairy leaves, is centred in the western Karoo and Olifants River Valley. Its range overlaps that of M. cuspidata, which has narrowly channelled, smooth leaves, linear inner tepals spreading distally and filaments united for up to 1.5 mm. M. decipiens from the Piketberg, M. hainebachiana, a local endemic of coastal limestone fynbos in the Saldanha District, M. ogamana from seasonally wet lowlands, and early flowering M. mutila constitute the remaining species of the complex in the southwestern Western Cape. M. helmei, a local endemic of middle elevations in the Kamiesberg, Namaqualand, has small flowers with short, tricuspidate inner tepals. All but M. amabilis and M. mutila are new species. We divide M. tripetala sensu stricto into three subspecies: widespread subsp. tripetala, subsp. violacea from the interior Cape flora region, and late-flowering subsp. jacquiniana from the Cape Peninsula and surrounding mountains." I was delighted to find that the article was published in Bothalia, which allows you to download full PDF copies of the articles. Yay! Since I hadn't been aware of that article, I decided I should check for others. And I found another one with eight new Moraea species: http://abcjournal.org/index.php/ABC/… ...plus a full revision of the entire genus based on new genetic information: http://abcjournal.org/index.php/ABC/… Fortunately, the revision doesn't change species names, but the species are now arranged in new groups. So, all of that means that the wiki section on Moraea is out of date. We have a bunch of new species to add, and we need to divide up the M. tripetala entry into nine species. Plus, I have six or seven pots of M. tripetala that I now need to re-identify. What a mess. But a fun mess! Mike San Jose, CA