Babiana cedarbergensis G.J.Lewis

Plants 40-60 mm high. Stem mostly underground, with collar of thick fibres around base. Leaves sword-shaped, rigid, almost pungent, pleated, 40-60 mm long, velvety hairy. Spike decumbent, 2-to 5-flowered; bracts green, outer often with a minute brown mucro at apex, 18-25 mm long, inner slightly shorter, forked in upper 1/3, margins membranous. Flowers zygomorphic, pale to deep violet with white markings outlined in dark blue on lower lateral tepals, lightly musk-scented; perianth tube obliquely funnel-shaped, 16-18 mm long; tepals unequal, dorsal largest, 28-35 mm long, lower tepals joined to upper laterals for ± 3 mm forming prominent lip, lower 3 tepals 21-27 mm long. Stamens unilateral; filaments arched, ± 13 mm long; anthers 7-9 mm long. Ovary hairy above base; style dividing at or beyond anther tips, branches ± 4 mm long.