Tribonanthes violacea Endl.

Scape usually less than 10 cm tall, occasionally to 20 cm. Flower usually solitary and partially enclosed by 2 broad overlapping leaf-like bracts with wide purplish membranous margins. Flowers not or faintly fragrant. Perianth lobes ±elliptic to broadly elliptic, spreading, often erect in fruit or when dried, 4.5-6.5 mm long, 1.8-3.6 mm wide, length : maximum width ratio 1.4-2.8, purplish, frequently with a deeper stripe on abaxial surface; both surfaces woolly or hairy, the abaxial sometimes sparsely so. Filament appendage usually shorter than to as long as anther tip.

Grows in seasonally wet situations.