Ixia saundersiana Goldblatt & J.C.Manning

Plants 150-200 mm high. Corm ovoid-conic, ± 8 mm diam.; tunics of fine netted fibres. Stem usually simple, rarely with up to three short, ascending branches. Leaves 2, lower basal, linear, 1.0-2.5 mm wide, sometimes shortly exceeding stem, central vein strongly and margins slightly thickened, pale when dry, upper sheathing the lower 1/2-2/3 of stem, with a short free blade. Spike 2-or 3(-5)-flowered; bracts membranous, translucent, outer with 3 main veins and 2 smaller lateral veins, shortly 3-toothed, inner 2-veined and 2-toothed. Flowers blue-mauve, yellow in throat; perianth tube funnel-shaped, ± 5 mm long; tepals ovate, ± 11 x 5.5 mm. Filaments erect, ± 3 mm long, reaching mouth of tube; anthers ± 4 mm long, yellow; pollen yellow. Style dividing opposite base to lower 1/3 of anthers, branches ± 1.5 mm long.