Ixia marginifolia G.J.Lewis

Plants 200-500 mm high, often with a collar of fibres around base. Corm 15-20 mm diam.; tunics of medium-textured to coarse fibres. Stem usually with 4-several (up to 10), short, filiform, straight or twisted branches, subtended by scale-like truncate bracts and prophylls ± 1 mm long. Leaves (3-)5, lower (2-)4 broadly lanceolate to falcate, 1/4-1/3 as long as stem, 8-15 mm wide; margins moderately to heavily thickened, pale, hyaline when dry, uppermost 1 or 2 leaves entirely sheathing. Main spike 1-to 3(-5)-flowered, lateral spikes (1)2-to 4-flowered; bracts membranous, translucent with dark veins, often dry and brown distally, 6-7 mm long, subequal, outer 3-veined and obscurely 3-lobed, inner 2-veined and forked apically. Flowers nodding, blue-mauve, pink, or white, faintly freesia-or rose-scented, sometimes with an acrid odour or unscented; perianth tube funnel-shaped, 2.5-4.0 mm long; tepals spreading distally, ovate, (7-)10-13 x 5.5-8.0 mm. Filaments 5-7 mm long, exserted (1.5-)3.5-5.0 mm from mouth of tube; anthers 3.0-4.5 mm long, usually diverging at ± 30º, pale yellow. Style dividing opposite lower to middle 1/3 of anthers, branches 1.5(-2.5) mm long.