Babiana curviscapa G.J.Lewis

Plants mostly acaulescent, 80-150 mm high, including leaves, often growing in tufts. Stem short, mostly underground, smooth or hispid to long-hairy, with up to 3 branches. Leaves several, lanceolate, pleated, velvety hairy, rarely long silky hairy, blades held apart, not forming a fan, loosely twisted, mostly 5-8 mm wide, rarely up to 15 mm. Spike horizontal, 5-to 12-flowered; bracts green with dry brown tips, velvety, 25-35 mm long, inner ± as long as outer, forked at apex. Flowers zygomorphic, deep red-purple or violet to deep blue, with white markings on lower lateral tepals, odourless or faintly violet-scented; perianth tube elongate-cylindric, 36-43 mm long, bent near apex; tepals unequal, dorsal 20-23 mm long, lower tepals 17-19 mm long. Stamens unilateral; filaments 12-14 mm long; anthers 4-6 mm long, white. Ovary smooth; style dividing opposite upper 1/3 of anthers, branches ± 4 mm long.

It is a subtropical plant.