Babiana flabellifolia Harv. ex Klatt

Plants up to 80 mm high. Stem short or entirely underground. Leaves crowded basally, abruptly truncate and wedge-shaped, pleated, smooth or finely hairy with shortly velvety margins, or rarely coarsely hairy with white hairs up to 2.5 mm long; juvenile leaves filiform and long-hairy. Spike borne at ground level, compact, 2-to several-flowered; bracts 15-30 mm long, ± membranous or green, smooth or papillate to finely hairy, inner bract forked at tip, tapering into slender awns. Flowers zygomorphic, pale mauve to violet, tube white to pale yellow and lower lateral tepals with pale yellow to white median markings, sweetly scented of rose or carnation, open day and night; perianth tube 12-36 mm long, cylindric, straight, dorsal tepal suberect or arching forward, 27-35 mm long, lower tepals slightly shorter, 25-27 mm long. Stamens unilateral; filaments arcuate, 15-18 mm long; anthers 6-8 mm long. Ovary smooth; style dividing near anther apices, branches 4-5 mm long, expanded apically.