Babiana planifolia (G.J.Lewis) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning

Plants 120-350 mm high. Corm globose; tunics finely fibrous. Stem erect, usually smooth, simple or with 1 or more short lateral branches, enclosed below ground by thick fibrous collar, cataphylls and base of leaf sheaths cobwebby to woolly. Leaves lanceolate to sword-shaped, plane or lightly undulate in proximal half, loosely twisted distally, blades (4-)8-16 mm long, sparsely short-hairy, often long-hairy on adaxial margins. Spike erect, sometimes sparsely hairy, with 3 to 8 flowers spirally arranged; bracts smooth or sparsely short-hairy, 12-24 mm long, inner forked to middle, tips attenuate. Flowers zygomorphic, mauve, lower lateral tepals yellow-green with mauve to purple tips; perianth tube 8-16 mm long, slender below, expanded toward apex; tepals unequal, clawed, dorsal arched, later recurving, 23-28 mm long, lower lateral tepals joined to upper laterals for 4-5 mm and to one another for ± 2 mm, 15-20 mm long. Stamens unilateral; filaments arched, ± 15 mm long; anthers ± 6 mm long. Ovary smooth; style dividing opposite middle to upper 1/3 of anthers, branches ± 3 mm long.