Babiana hirsuta is a species of geophyte of 40–70 cm (16–28 in) high that is assigned to the family Iridaceae. It has many scarlet mirror-symmetrical flowers in a branched inflorescence with several short ascending branches. The flower has a narrow tube, and three large, blackish or dark purple anthers that extend beyond the dorsal tepal. The leaves are velvety hairy, lance-shaped, laterally compressed and set in a fan.[1] It is an endemic species of South Africa that can be found along the west coast of the Northern and Western Cape provinces as far south as Saldanha.[3] It is called red babiana in English, but that name is also applied to Babiana villosa, and strandlelie, sandlelie and rooihanekam in Afrikaans.[4] Until 2008, the strandlelie was known as Babiana thunbergii.[5][6]
^ abGoldblatt, Peter; Manning, John C. (2007). "A revision of the South African genus Babiana, Iridaceae, Crocoidae" (PDF). Strelitzia. 18. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, and Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri: 60.
^Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. "Babiana hirsuta (Lam.) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning". Plants of the World Online.
^Goldblatt, Peter; Manning, John C.; Gerreau, Roy E. (2008). "Two new species of Babiana (Iridaceae: Crocoideae) from western South Africa, new names for B. longiflora and B. thunbergii , and comments on the original publication of the genus". Bothalia. 38 (1): 49–55. doi:10.4102/abc.v38i1.260.
^Manning, John (2007). Field Guide to Fynbos. Random House Struik Ltd. p. 134.
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