Babiana hirsuta (Lam.) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning

Plants 400-700 mm high. Stem erect, densely hairy, with several, short, horizontal branches. Leaves lanceolate, firm, pleated, minutely hairy or scabrid. Spikes horizontal, crowded, many-flowered; bracts smooth or minutely hairy, green with dry brown tips, outer 18-30 mm long, inner slightly shorter, divided to ± middle, transparent in midline, prominently 2-veined. Flowers zygomorphic, facing spike apex, bright red, lower tepals yellow marked with green to black at base, unscented; perianth tube narrowly funnel-shaped, expanded in upper half, curving upward away from spike apex, 30-40 mm long; tepals unequal, ± clawed, dorsal 16-20 mm long, erect, margins curving inward enclosing filaments, lower tepals united with upper laterals for ± 6 mm in a prominent lip, lower and upper laterals ± 8 mm long. Stamens unilateral; filaments straight, erect, unilateral, 37-40 mm long, enclosed by upper tepal; anthers 5-7 mm long. Ovary smooth; style dividing between base and middle of anthers, branches ± 4 mm long.