Freesia refracta (Jacq.) Klatt

Plants (80-)150-400(-600) mm high. Corm conic or ± globose, 12-30 mm diam., tunics light brown, of fine-medium-textured fibres, forming short neck. Stem suberect, smooth, usually branched. Leaves 7 to 10, usually erect, half as long to ± as long as stem, narrowly lanceolate-attenuate, (60-)100-300 x 2-7(-10) mm, acute, sometimes glaucous, rarely with prominent marginal vein. Spike horizontal or deflexed, (4)5-to 10(-12)-flowered; bracts oblong to oblanceolate, membranous becoming dry, translucent or flushed pale pinkish with brown veins, 4-8 mm long, obtuse to apiculate, inner slightly shorter to slightly longer. Flowers 25-35 mm long, pale greenish yellow or dull white, ± purplish on reverse and base of tube, lowermost tepal and inner margins of the lower lateral tepals bright orange, all 3 lower tepals with dark brownish midline, either unscented or strongly scented of rose and violet with spicy undertones; perianth tube funnel-shaped, 16-25 mm long with basal tubular portion 5-8(-9) mm long, widening abruptly into flared upper portion; tepals with dorsal largest, suberect, broadly ovate-cordate, 8-12 x 7-10 mm, upper laterals ovate, lower tepals recurved, laterals broadly ovate-cordate, margins strongly upcurved, 7-11 x 8-10 mm, lower median ovate, 7-10 x 4-8 mm. Filaments arcuate, 10-14 mm long, included; anthers 5-6 mm long. Style dividing at or slightly beyond anther apices. Capsules subglobose or oblong, 6-10 x 6-8 mm, papillate. Seeds globose with flattened chalaza, 2.0-2.5 mm diam., lightly wrinkled, glossy reddish brown.