Ixia tenuifolia Vahl

Plants 120-240 mm high. Corm 10-18 mm diam.; tunics of fine, soft netted fibres. Stem unbranched, wiry. Leaves mostly 3(4), reaching or shortly exceeding spike, firm-textured, linear, 1.3-2.0 mm wide, main vein ± central or displaced abaxially, uppermost leaf sheathing in lower half. Spike densely 3 to 8(-14)-flowered; bracts dry-membranous, 6-8 mm long, opaque, pale below, rust-brown distally, outer with 1 prominent vein, acute, inner 2-veined and 2-toothed, ± as long as outer. Flowers salver-shaped, salmon-pink or yellow to orange, dark red-brown in centre, unscented; perianth tube filiform below, narrowly funnel-shaped in upper third, 3-5 mm wide at mouth, (12-)15-19 mm long; tepals subequal, 15-19 x 8-10 mm, spreading horizontally. Filaments 4-5 mm long, exserted 1.0-1.5 mm; anthers ± 5 mm long, yellow. Style dividing just below or shortly above anther bases, branches 2.5-3.0 mm long.