Ixia odorata Ker Gawl.

Plants (200-)400-550 mm high. Corm 6-8 mm diam.; tunics of fine netted fibres. Stem slender, simple, rarely 1-branched; branches subtended by short, acute bracts and prophylls ± 1 mm long. Leaves (3)4 to 6(-10), lower 2 to 4 with expanded blades, reaching to ± middle of stem, narrowly sword-shaped to lanceolate, often slightly twisted distally, 2-10 mm wide, upper 1 or 2 partly sheathing. Spike erect, crowded, mostly 10-to 16-flowered; bracts membranous, translucent, rarely flushed pink, 6-7 mm long, usually 1.5-2.0 internodes long, sometimes longer, outer usually with a single prominent vein and 1 central cusp, or obscurely 3-lobed with central cusp prominent, inner ± as long as outer, 2-veined and shallowly forked at apex. Flowers clear yellow (often whitish when dry), rarely white, outer tepals sometimes flushed red to brown outside, sweetly scented; perianth tube filiform below, flared in upper third, (7-)8-12 mm long, 3-5 mm wide at mouth; tepals subequal, 9-11 x ± 5 mm, spreading horizontally. Filaments 2.5-3.0 mm long, exserted 1.5-2.0 mm; anthers 5-6 mm long, yellow. Style dividing between base and apex of filaments, thus within tube up to ± 2 mm above mouth of tube, branches (3-)4-6 mm long, arching outward below or between bases of anthers.