Ixia esterhuyseniae M.p.de Vos

Plants mostly 100-150(-200) mm high. Stem simple or rarely with 1 short, suberect branch subtended by attenuate, brown-tipped bracts and prophylls, bracts 4-8 mm long and prophylls 2-3 times longer, up to 18 mm long. Corm depressed-globose, 8-10 mm diam.; tunics of fine fibres. Leaves 5 or 6, all with expanded blades or uppermost largely sheathing, sword-shaped, reaching to between middle and top of stem, 4-6 mm wide, main vein slightly raised. Spike crowded, closely 2-to 4(-6)-flowered; bracts membranous, ± 4.5 mm long, outer with a prominent central vein, inner 2-veined and bidentate. Flowers rotate, upright, yellow, tepals flushed red to purple outside, lily-scented; perianth tube funnel-shaped, flared in upper half, 4.5-6.0 mm long, ± 4.5 mm wide at mouth; tepals subequal, 10-11 x 5-6 mm, spreading horizontally. Filaments ± 3.5 mm long, exserted ± 1.5 mm; anthers 3.5-4.0 mm long, yellow. Style dividing opposite lower to middle 1/3 of anthers, branches 2.0-2.5 mm long, extending between upper 1/3 of anthers.