Ferraria ferrariola Willd.

Plants slender, mostly 150-250 mm high. Stem sheathed below by mottled cataphylls and leaf sheaths; lower internodes usually partly exposed, usually branched in upper half. Leaves: basal linear, unifacial, usually slightly longer than stem, mostly 2-3 mm wide, main vein usually well delineated; cauline leaves markedly shorter and broader than basal leaves and resembling spathes. Rhipidia 2-flowered; spathes glaucous or pale green, with broad transparent margins, hooked at tips, inner 45-60(-70) long, often inflated, outer ± 1/2-2/3 as long, sheathing below, diverging in upper half. Flowers on pedicels 20-30 mm long; greenish blue, grey-blue, or pale watery yellow to pale green, usually with darker spots and streaks on outer tepal limbs, faintly sweet-or spice-scented, sometimes odourless, tepal claws forming a narrow, closed cup, 17-20 mm deep, ± 12 mm wide at mouth; nectaries small, at base of tepals; outer tepals (30-)35-40 mm long, claws fairly narrow, 17-20 mm long, inner slightly shorter and narrower, limbs of outer ± spreading, inner usually reflexed. Filaments united in a column 14-19 mm long, upper 1-2 mm free; anther thecae initially parallel, ± 4 mm long at anthesis, later diverging and shrinking to almost 2 mm. Ovary ellipsoid, 20-25 mm long, with sterile beak, (5-)8-12 mm long; included; style branches ± 2.5 mm long, with diverging, fringed arms, ± 2.5 mm long; stigmas irregularly shaped lobes in middle of style arms, arching over anthers. Capsules ovoid-oblong, 14-20(-25) mm long, beak (5-)8-12 mm long. Seeds mostly 5-sided, 3.0-3.5 x 2.5-3.0 mm, smooth, shiny, brown, facets separated by prominent, pale wavy ridges, facets light yellow-brown, smooth or slightly wrinkled.