Gladiolus magnificus (Harms) Goldblatt

Flowers bright-red with yellow markings on the lower tepals and in the throat, the lower 3 tepals at least sometimes each with a dark red-purple blotch in the midline; perianth tube 25–30 mm long, narrow below, expanded near the top of the bracts and curving outward and nearly horizontal, c. 4 mm wide at the mouth; tepals very unequal, the uppermost 35–42 × 18–22 mm, larger than the others and hooded horizontal, the upper lateral tepals 13–15 mm long and broadly lanceolate, directed forwards, the apices curving outwards, the lower 3 tepals c. 10 mm long, narrowly lanceolate, more or less horizontal, or the lowermost recurving.

It is a tropical plant.

The corm or bulb is eaten cooked as a vegetable.