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Babiana stricta, the baboon flower [1] or blue freesia, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae, native to Cape Province, South Africa and naturalized in Australia. [ 3 ] Description
The genus Babiana is part of the Iridaceae family, Crocoidae subfamily. Manning and Goldblatt recognised three sections, and several subsections. The section Babiana consists of species in which the inner of the two bracts subtending each flower is split to the base or sometimes the halves are connected by a thin and transparent membrane. The ...
Babiana rubrocyanea is a perennial geophyte of 5–15 cm (2.0–5.9 in) high, with entire, lance-shaped, hairy, pleated leaves and flowers that have a narrowly funnel-shaped tube at their base and six free tepal lobes at the top that form a wide cup that is purplish blue with a sharply defined carmine red centre.
Babiana grandiflora is a perennial plant of 8–14 cm (3.1–5.5 in) high that emerges at the start of every growing season from an underground corm. It has pleated sideways flattened leaves. It can be distinguished from other species of bobbejaantjie mainly by its very large, mirror-symmetric deep to pale bluish flowers near the ground.
Babiana nana is a geophytic perennial plant of 6–15 cm (2.4–5.9 in) high. Most of its stem can be found underground and can be branched. The plants lack a fibrous collar around the stem that is visible at the surface of the soil, but the stem appears above the ground.
Babiana tubulosa also has pale flowers with a comparably long perianth tube. It can be distinguished by its more robust habit, wider and hairy, sword-shaped leaves of 8–12 mm (0.31–0.47 in) wide, cream-coloured flowers from mid-September to mid-October, that are flushed pink on the reverse, with a perianth tube with a distinct gullet, filaments of 20–22 mm (0.79–0.87 in) long and style ...
Babiana villosa is a species of geophyte of 10–20 cm (3.9–7.9 in) high that is assigned to the family Iridaceae.It has mauve-pink, purple or scarlet star-symmetrical wide chalice-shaped flowers with narrow tube, large, blackish or dark purple anthers, and velvety hairy, lance-shaped, laterally compressed leaves, set in a fan.
Babiana mucronata is a perennial plant species that grows to about 5–18 cm (2.0–7.1 in) high and annually forms leaves and flowers from an underground corm. It is assigned to the iris family. It has a simple or branched, more or less upright spike of 3-12 dark to pale violet-blue, mirror-symmetrical flowers. Each flower consists of a ...
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