Babiana tubulosa (Burm.F.) Ker Gawl.

Plants 70-150 mm high. Stem extending shortly to up to 100 mm above ground, then lightly hairy to velvety, with a poorly developed fibrous collar around base. Leaves narrowly sword-shaped, 8-12 mm wide, pleated, hairy. Spike inclined to ± horizontal, mostly 6-to 10-flowered; bracts green with dry, brown tips, velvety, 20-40 mm long, inner ± half as long as outer, forked apically. Flowers zygomorphic, creamy white, pink to red outside, with triangular to spear-shaped red markings on lower lateral tepals, tepal claws ascending with limbs spreading, odourless; perianth tube 65-105 mm long, cylindric below widening in upper 15-21 mm into a distinct gullet, tepals unequal, narrowed below and ± clawed, dorsal ± 30-34 mm long, lower 3 tepals 18-23 x 8 mm. Stamens unilateral; filaments 20-22 mm long; anthers 5-7 mm, purple; pollen white. Ovary smooth; style dividing opposite or shortly above anther tips, branches ± 6 mm long.