1	"Inflorescence a solitary flower"	2
1	"Inflorescence of 2 or more flowers"	3
2	"Flower sessile; stigmas 3"	"Moraea {Moraea fugacissima}"
2	"Flower pedicellate; stigmas 6"	Romulea
3	"Inflorescence of 1-many flower clusters, each subtended by 1 or 2 primary bracts; flowers soon withering"	4
3	"Inflorescence spike-like, sometimes branched, of 2 or more persistent flowers, each subtended by 2 short primary bracts"	14
4	"Style with petaloid branches, each covering a stamen, with 2 erect crests exceeding the flap-shaped stigma (Iris-shaped flowers)"	5
4	"Style without petaloid branches and crests absent; stamens exposed"	7
5	"Perennial with corms; leaves and flowers annual; stamens united"	Moraea
5	"Evergreen perennials with rhizomes; stamens free or shortly united basally"	6
6	"Perianth united into tube basally; petals and sepals usually held in different orientation"	Iris
6	"Perianth free; petals and sepals all spreading in same plane"	Dietes
7	"Leaves channelled laterally"	Moraea
7	"Leaves equitant"	8
8	"Perianth parts very unequal; inner perianth vestigial"	Patersonia
8	"Perianth parts equal or subequal"	9
9	"Inner perianth with 2 parts spreading and one part forming a hood over the stamens; stamens 2; staminode 1"	"Diplarrena {Diplarrena moraea}"
9	"Inner perianth parts all spreading; stamens 3"	10
10	"Margin of each perianth part undulate and crisped"	"Ferraria {Ferraria crispa subsp. crispa}"
10	"Margin of each perianth part flat"	11
11	"Flowers and capsules almost sessile and partly enclosed by the primary bracts"	Orthrosanthus
11	"Flowers and capsules pedicellate and exserted beyond the primary bracts"	12
12	"Perianth parts spreading from base, not forming a tube basally; stamens exserted"	Libertia
12	"Perianth parts forming a tube basally, spreading distally; stamens included"	13
13	"Perianth blue, twisted spirally after flowering"	Aristea
13	"Perianth white or yellow, with darker markings in centre, not twisted spirally-after flowering"	Sisyrinchium
14	"Style branches deeply divided; stigmas 6 or more"	15
14	"Style branches entire; stigmas 3"	16
15	"Flowers erect, on one side of inflorescence"	Freesia
15	"Flowers spreading, in loosely 2-ranked inflorescence"	Watsonia
16	"Leaves densely hairy, plicate, abruptly narrowed into a petiole-like base"	"Babiana {Babiana angustifolia}"
16	"Leaves glabrous to puberulous, never plicate or abruptly narrowed basally"	17
17	"Perianth tube straight; flowers ± erect"	18
17	"Perianth tube curved; flowers spreading"	22
18	"Plants somewhat grass-like, leaves tough, evergreen, scape erect with several pendulous, wiry branches in upper portion, each with a terminal spike of flowers"	Dierama
18	"Leaves annual; scape unbranched, or few branched and branches erect or spreading"	19
19	"Perianth tube narrowly cylindric, exserted beyond the primary bracts"	Ixia
19	"Perianth tube funnel-shaped, not or just exserted beyond the primary bracts"	20
20	"Corm with woody imbracte outer layers; primary bracts entire; perianth tube not well developed, 1–2 mm long"	"Geissorhiza {Geissorhiza aspera}"
20	"Corm with fiberous outer layer; pimany bracts with margin torn or toothed at apex; peranth tube 8–15 mm long"	21
21	"Primary bracts stiffly membranous, brown-streaked; margin jagged as if torn"	Sparaxis
21	"Primary bracts membranous, at least partly green, not brown-streaked; margin entire or emarginate"	Tritonia
22	"Stolons present; axis of inflorescence strongly flexuose"	"Crocosmia {Crocosmia ×crocosmiiflora}"
22	"Stolons absent; axis of inflorescence never flexuose"	23
23	"Perianth tube narrow basally, abruptly widened c. 1 cm above ovary"	24
23	"Perianth tube gradually widened from base"	25
24	"Perianth bilabiate, with the adaxial lobe much longer than the other lobes; capsule depressed-globose"	Chasmanthe
24	"Perianth with lobes subequal, not bilabiate; capsule oblong"	"Gladiolus {Gladiolus watsonius}"
25	"Primary bracts entire, green, soft"	Gladiolus
25	"Primary bracts emarginate, brown, stiffly membranous"	Tritonia