Ixia exiliflora Goldblatt & J.C.Manning

Plants 250-700 mm high, with green cataphylls becoming dry distally. Corm subglobose, 8-12 mm diam., with small cormlets at base; tunics of fine fibres. Stem usually with 2 or 3 branchlets subtended by bracts and prophylls 3-4 mm long, acute to attenuate, translucent white. Leaves 3, lower 2 linear, reaching lower 1/3 to middle of stem, 1.0-1.7 mm wide, loosely twisted in upper 1/2, main vein not evident when alive, slightly raised when dry. Spike with main axis (2)3-or 4-flowered, lateral spikes (1)2-or 3-flowered; bracts 6-8 mm long, translucent, outer 3-veined and 3-toothed, inner 2-veined, 2-toothed. Flowers nodding, grey-blue to dingy white with creamy yellow cup, with faint rose scent; perianth tube narrowly funnel-shaped, 8-10 mm long; tepals ovate, 8-10 x 4-5 mm. Filaments 3-4 mm long, included; anthers 3.5-4.0 mm long, half included in tube and entirely within floral cup, yellow. Style dividing close to anther tips, branches ± 1.3 mm long, when fully expanded often shortly exceeding anthers.