Corm up to 1.8 cm diam. Stem with 1–4 spreading, flexuose branches. Leaves 3–5, erect, linear, 15–60 cm long, 3–10 mm wide, with prominent midvein. Inflorescence 5–14-flowered, flowers openly spaced to crowded. Primary bracts obtuse, 8–14 mm long, dry and membranous, ± colourless or brownish at apex. Flowers cream-coloured to yellowish, shaded dull pink inside tube and outer surface of lobes. Perianth tube sub-cylindric to narrowly funnel-shaped, 4–7 cm long; lobes spreading, 1.5–2 cm long, 3–7 mm wide, with apex obtuse to emarginate. Staminal filaments free, 5–6 mm long; anthers 6–7 mm long. Ovary 3–4 mm long; style branches spreading above or below anthers, recurved, 1.5–2 mm long. Flowers Oct.–Nov.
GipP, HSF. Also naturalised in WA, SA. Native to South Africa. Known to be naturalised only in Elsternwick and near Moe, but likely established elsewhere.
Source:
Conn, B.J. (1994). Iridaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 686–716. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
