Babiana Blanda
''Babiana'' ()''Sunset Western Garden Book'', 1995:606–607 is a genus of geophytes in the family (biology), family Iridaceae with 93 recognized species . The leaves consist of a stalk and a blade that are at an angle to each other. The leaf blades are entire, laterally flattened and pleated, and often hairy. Each individual flower is subtended by two hairy or smooth bracts that are green in most species. The outer bract is often the largest of the two. In most species the bracts have a dry, brown tip, but in a few species it is entirely green or entirely dry when flowering or the outer bract is translucent and has a papery texture. The inner bract (between the flower and the stem) is forked or split all the way to its base. Each flower is without a Pedicel (botany), pedicel, with six tepals that are merged at their base into a tube and form a perianth that is mirror-symmetrical in most species, with three anthers implanted where the perianth tube widens and that are, in almost ev ...
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Babiana Sambucina
''Babiana sambucina'' is a species of geophyte of high that is assigned to the family Iridaceae. It has dense spikes of blue to violet-coloured, often fragrant flowers. There are two subspecies, ''B. sambucina'' subsp. ''longibracteata'' is restricted to a small area in the Northern Cape, ''B. sambucina'' subsp. ''sambucina'' grows in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa. Flowers are present in August and September. Description Babiana sambucina is a plant that emerges from a globe-shaped corm within a fibrous covering and grows to high. Each year it produces up to six, lance- to line-shaped, variably pleated, variably hairy leaf blades, at least silky at their base, which are at an angle with the leaf stalk and reach higher than the inflorescence. Each flower is subtended by two bracts, the outer bract long, slightly larger than and clasping the inner bract. Both bracts are green with rust-brown tips. The inner bracts are forked only at the tips. Somet ...
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