Ixia trinervata (Baker) G.J.Lewis

Plants 250-450 mm high, stem usually unbranched or with a single short branch, with membranous cataphylls enclosing base. Corm 9-18 mm diam., tunics of firm, medium-textured, netted fibres. Leaves 2, lower 1 ± basal, upper 1 sheathing stem in lower 1/2, blades lanceolate, 4-10 mm wide, conspicuously 3-veined, main vein moderately thickened, secondary veins slightly less so, margins not or barely thickened. Spike flexuose, mostly 7-122-flowered; bracts membranous, translucent, sometimes turning rusty brown in upper 1/3, outer 5-6 mm long, with prominent central vein and up to six secondary veins, 1-toothed or ± fringed, inner ± as long as outer, 2-veined and 2-toothed. Flowers rotate, deep rose pink, unscented; perianth tube filiform, 4-5 mm long, clasping style; tepals spreading, ovate-elliptic, obtuse to retuse, 12-15 x 6-8 mm. Stamens symmetrically arranged, erect; filaments inserted at mouth of tube, filiform, 2-4 mm long, ± white; anthers erect, suborbicular, ± 2 mm long, yellow, thecae acute and recurved at base, dehiscing by narrow, longitudinal slits almost to apex. Style dividing at base of filaments, branches falcate, 2.5-3.0 mm long, tubular-filiform, stigmatic apically, pale pink.