Babiana unguiculata G.J.Lewis

Plants 100-200 mm high. Stem erect, sometimes with 1 or 2 short branches in upper 1/3, velvety, enclosed below by thick collar of fibres. Leaves sublinear to sword-shaped, reaching to ± middle of spike, 4-7 mm wide, sometimes lightly twisted, strongly pleated, usually shortly hairy (in cultivation smooth except for a line of long hairs on adaxial margins). Spike suberect, 4-to 12-flowered; bracts green, dark brown at tips, softly hairy, 7-15 mm long, inner slightly shorter or longer than outer, forked mostly to base (rarely for half their length with membranous midline). Flowers zygomorphic, pale creamy yellow, lower lateral tepals deep yellow; perianth tube 10-12 mm long; tepals unequal, dorsal ± 25 mm long, arching over stamens, later erect, lower tepals joined to upper laterals for ± 5 mm and to one another for 3-4 mm in a prominent lip, lower laterals with narrow claws ± 2 mm long, abruptly widening into broad limbs ± 15 x 7 mm. Stamens unilateral; filaments arched, 12-15 mm long; anthers 5-6 mm long, yellow; pollen white. Ovary lightly hairy, mostly on ribs; style dividing between middle and apex of anthers, branches 3-4 mm long.