Ixia pauciflora G.J.Lewis

Plants 150-300(-400) mm high, with chestnut-brown cataphylls and collar of fibres around base. Corm 9-14 mm diam.; tunics of fine, dark fibres. Stem usually unbranched, then often with a node bearing a short membranous scale, or with 1 or 2(-4) short branchlets up to 10 mm long, subtended by thread-like, attenuate bracts and prophylls 4-8 mm long. Leaves 3, lower 2 linear, leathery, ± 1.8 mm wide; uppermost leaf sheathing stem often to base of spike. Main spike 1-or 2(3)-flowered, branchlets 1(2)-flowered; bracts 9-14 mm long, outer 3-veined and 3-toothed, inner 2-veined and 2-toothed. Flowers nodding, zygomorphic (?or sometimes radially symmetric) with unilateral stamens, pale blue to blue-mauve, whitish or palest yellow, pale yellow in throat, tepals spreading distally, proximal 3 mm directed forward and forming part of floral cup, odourless or faintly scented; perianth tube expanding uniformly from base to apex, 15-18 mm long; tepals subequal, 16-18 x 8-10 mm, ascending in lower 1/3, spreading above. Filaments unilateral, 12-13 mm long, exserted 2-6 mm; anthers (4-)5-6 mm long, horizontal, facing dorsal tepal. Style dividing opposite lower 1/3 of anthers, branches 3.0-4.5 mm long, extending between anthers.