Ixia purpureorosea G.J.Lewis

Plants mostly 400 to 600 mm high. Corm up to 20 mm diam., with broad, fasciated stolons up to 60 mm long, branching distally and each branch with a small terminal cormlet; tunics of brown, membranous layers later becoming fibrous. Stem simple or with 1 short branch subtended by acute bracts and prophylls. Leaves 4 or 5, sword-shaped, often slightly twisted distally, main vein thickened, margins not raised, upper 2 leaves sheathing stem, uppermost often entirely sheathing. Spike fairly crowded, mostly 15-to 20-flowered; bracts translucent white turning pale straw-coloured above with age, mostly ± 8 mm long, ± reaching node above, outer obscurely 3-veined, central vein more prominent, 3-lobed, central lobe longest, acute, outer lobes ± obtuse, inner 2-veined and 2-cusped. Flowers salver-shaped, pink-purple, dark purple in throat, bases of tepals white sometimes edged with pale pink, tube dark red-purple to brown outside, unscented; perianth tube 13-15 mm long, ± filiform below, flaring in upper 3 mm, with nectar held in upper part; tepals ovate, 20-22 x 10 mm long spreading but remaining ± spooned. Filaments erect, contiguous, white, ± 4 mm long, exserted ± 2.5 mm from tube; anthers diverging, 6-8 mm long, yellow. Style dividing opposite or shortly above base of anthers, branches arching outward, between anthers, white, ± 5.5 mm long.