Ixia fucata Ker Gawl.

Plants (150-)250-400 mm high, usually with weakly developed fibrous collar around base. Corm globose, 7-9 mm diam., with tunics of fine, soft, netted fibres. Stem usually unbranched, or with a single short, erect branch subtended by translucent, membranous, attenuate bracts and prophylls 2-3 mm long, these present even when branch not produced. Leaves (3)4 or 5, narrowly sword-shaped to sublinear, 1.5-3.0 mm wide, main vein and margins usually slightly thickened, uppermost (1)2 leaves largely or entirely sheathing. Spike flexuose, (2-)4-to 7(-14)-flowered; bracts 5-8 mm long, outer 5-veined and acutely 3-toothed, inner bracts as long or slightly longer than outer, 2-veined and forked apically. Flowers salver-shaped, suberect, sometimes with unilateral stamens, white to pale or deep pink with darker lines or streaks at mouth of tube and uniformly pink or red outside; perianth tube 10-15 mm long, straight, slightly flared, ± 2 mm diam.; tepals subequal, 12-14 x ± 6 mm, spreading at right angles to tube. Filaments 3-6 mm long, exserted ± 2-5 mm from tube; anthers 3.5-4.0 mm long, shortly tailed, often purple; pollen yellow (brown). Style dividing opposite lower third to middle of anthers, branches 2.0-2.5 mm long, recurved.