Lapeirousia plicata subsp. plicata Willd.

Leaves usually 2 or 3, only lowermost with unifacial blade, ± linear, up to 150 x 2-3 mm, suberect, ribbed, usually ciliate or papillate on rib edges, margins plane or undulate, ciliolate. Bracts green, outer usually falcate, channelled throughout or with short, ribbed leafy apex up to 10 mm long, margins undulate to slightly crisped, usually ciliate. Flowers either blue with white zone at tepal bases and violet or purple triangular mark at distal edge of white zone or white with violet mark near tepal bases; perianth tube mostly 12-22 mm long; tepals 7-8 mm long, spreading or slightly reflexed. Stamens: filaments exserted ± 2 mm, diverging; anthers 1.8-3.0 mm long, blue to purple. Style dividing below to opposite base (rarely opposite middle) of anthers; style branches usually forked for 1/3-1/2 their length or shortly notched at apex, 1.0-1.5 mm long, recurving.