User:Dwergenpaartje/sandbox

Description
Babiana rubella is a perennial plant of 10-12 cm high, that emerges from a deep-seated corm of up to 3 cm in diameter. The base of the stem has a well-developed fibrous collar that extends above the ground. The infloresce is a suberect to inclined simple spike or having one branch, that is covered by leaf sheaths and densely long-hairy where it is exposed. The broadly lance-shaped to ovate leaves are held obliquely or almost at a right angles to the leaf sheaths, slightly pleated, densely set with long hairs of up to 4 mm long on the veins and margins. The variably hairy leaf sheaths are short, broad and overlapping. The 2 bracts that are subtending the flowers are 1½-2½ cm long, densely hairy, green with the tips drying to rusty brown, the inner about as long as the outer, forked only at the tip or as far at midlength, or transparent along the upper mid-line.

Flowers (2)3-6 per spike, bilabiate, pale to deep pinkish purple, lower lateral tepals yellow with pink tips, lightly rose-scented; perianth tube 12-15 mm long, ± half as long as tepals; dorsal tepal 28-30 x ± 8-9 mm, lower tepals joined to upper laterals for ± 5 mm and to one another for ± 3 mm, upper laterals ± 24 mm long, lower tepals 23-25 mm long, crisped along lower margins. Stamens unilateral; filaments arched, ± 14 mm long; anthers ± 4.5 mm long, pale bluish; pollen white. Ovary smooth, ± 3 mm long; style arching over stamens. Capsules and seeds unknown. Flowering time : August to early September. to short, broad imbricate leaf sheaths,