Babiana lewisiana B.Nord.

Plants 70-150 mm high. Stem simple or with one branch, softly hairy above, sheathed below by smooth cataphylls. Leaves with short pseudopetioles, blades oblong, held almost at right angles to sheaths, 10-15 mm wide, strongly ribbed but scarcely plicate, hairless or minutely hairy on margins. Spike 3-to 8-flowered; bracts sparsely hairy, green with attenuate, dry brown tips, often torn at apex, 15-20 mm long, inner slightly shorter than outer, forked to ± middle. Flowers zygomorphic, greenish yellow with purple tips; perianth tube funnel-shaped, ± 10 mm long; tepals unequal, dorsal oblong, ± 25 mm long, lower tepals joined to upper laterals for short distance, with short, well-developed claws, ± 20 mm long. Stamens unilateral; filaments arcuate, ± 15 mm long; anthers 5-6 mm long. Ovary smooth; style dividing opposite anther apices, branches ± 2.5 mm long.