Babiana rubrocyanea Ker Gawl.

Plants 50-150 mm high. Stem strongly flexed outward and inclined, usually branched. Leaves lanceolate, pleated, hairy. Spike inclined, 5-to 10-flowered; bracts green with brown tips, velvety, outer trilobed at apex, 18-30 mm long, inner slightly shorter than outer, divided to base. Flowers subzygomorphic with only stamens and style unilateral, deep blue with red centre outlined in white, odourless; perianth tube narrowly funnel-shaped, 15-20 mm long; tepals subequal, symmetrically disposed, widely cupped, 20-24 mm long. Stamens unilateral (possibly sometimes symmetrically arranged); filaments arching over lower tepals, 10-13 mm long; anthers 6-7 mm long, facing spike apex, reddish brown; pollen brown. Ovary hairy above base; style dividing opposite middle of anthers, branches short, ± 2 mm long, with broad, flattened tips.

Can be grown by seedlings.