Babiana auriculata G.J.Lewis

Plants 40-100 mm high. Stem short, often with 1 or 2 short branches, deflexed, lightly hairy. Leaves lanceolate, pleated, with short and long silky hairs, apex shortly cuspidate. Spike inclined to horizontal, secund, 3-to 8-flowered; outer bracts green, dry and rust-coloured in upper 1/3, softly hairy, 13-25 mm long, inner slightly shorter than outer, forked for ± 2/3 and membranous in lower midline, margins hyaline. Flowers 3 to 8 nodding, zygomorphic, dorsal tepal and stamens facing spike apex, blue-mauve, lower lateral tepals with pale yellow markings outlined in dark violet; perianth tube funnel-shaped, 15-20 mm long; tepals unequal, dorsal 20-28 mm long, lower tepals joined to upper laterals for short distance, forming a lip, lower narrowed into claws ± 5 mm long, limbs 10-15 mm long, lower laterals with auriculate lobes at base. Stamens unilateral; filaments arched, 15-18 mm long; anthers 4-6 mm long. Ovary hairy on ribs; style dividing opposite upper half of anthers, branches ± 3 mm long.