Ixia atrandra Goldblatt & J.C.Manning

Plants 250-500 mm high. Corm globose, 15-20 mm diam.; tunics of medium-textured, wiry, netted fibres. Stem usually unbranched or with 1 short, ascending branch. Leaves usually (3)4, all basal, lanceolate, usually reaching to ± middle of stem, 6-10 mm wide, plane or lightly twisted in upper half, uppermost leaf usually entirely sheathing, main vein and margins hyaline, lightly thickened. Spike crowded, (3)4-to 10-flowered; bracts dry, translucent, veins ± pink above, outer 5-6 mm long, obscurely 3-toothed, inner usually slightly shorter, 2-toothed. Flowers salver-shaped, pink or rarely creamy white, lower third of tepals dull pink or yellowish to ochre-coloured with an outer band of deep lilac, unscented; perianth tube filiform, 6-9 mm long, widened in upper 1 mm; tepals obovate, somewhat narrowed below into a short claw, spreading with distal margins curving upward, 11-14 x 6-8 mm. Filaments 2.5-3.0 mm long, weakly diverging, free or united at base, blue to brownish; anthers 5-6 x 1.5-2.0 mm, with broad connective, thecae restricted to margins, dehiscing laterally, initially erect, diverging and becoming slightly twisted, black; pollen yellow. Style dividing opposite or shortly above base of filaments, blue, branches 3-4 mm long, ultimately reaching bases of anthers.