Babiana cuneata J.C.Manning & Goldblatt

Plants 80-150 mm high, including leaves. Stem short, smooth. Leaves crowded basally, up to 6, oblong, (20-)30-100 x 8-18(-30) mm, leathery, pleated, abruptly truncate, smooth or finely velvety hairy. Spike compact, borne at ground level, 2-to 5(-7)-flowered; bracts green with brown attenuate tips, smooth or lightly hairy, 25-50 mm long, inner ± as long as outer, forked apically, basal margins sometimes fused around ovary for ± 2 mm. Flowers zygomorphic, pale blue to violet, lower lateral tepals with white median marks outlined dark violet to purple below, evidently odourless or sweetly scented; perianth tube 40-60 mm long, cylindric, straight, widening slightly in upper 8 mm; tepals spreading, subequal or upper three slightly larger, 26-32(-40) x 6-12 mm, upper laterals fused to lower for ± 2 mm. Stamens unilateral; filaments unilateral, 15-18 mm long, exserted 9-10 mm; anthers ± 6(-11) mm long, pale yellow to cream-coloured. Ovary smooth, lower flowers shortly stalked; style dividing opposite anther bases or opposite anther apices, branches ± 6 mm long, arching outward between or over anthers.