Babiana montana G.J.Lewis

Plants 60-100 mm high, including leaves. Corm with tunics of coarse, matted fibres. Stem short, suberect, sometimes with short lateral branch, hairy, sheathed below by collar of tough fibres. Leaves lanceolate, pleated, hairy. Spike 4-to 5-flowered, crowded; bracts green with dry rust-coloured acute tips, densely hairy, 25-30(-38) mm long, inner ± 5 mm shorter than outer, divided to base. Flowers 2 to 5 in deflexed spike, zygomorphic, mauve, lower lateral tepals with yellow median blotch edged below in dark purple; perianth tube narrowly funnel-shaped, 17-20 mm long; tepals unequal, dorsal 25-35 mm long, lower tepals 22-30 mm long. Stamens unilateral; filaments unequal, median longer, 7-10 mm long; anthers 7 mm long. Ovary smooth; style dividing opposite upper half of anthers, branches ± 3 mm long, tips flattened and orbicular.