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Babiana bainesii
Also called Tropical Bobbejaantjie
Babiana bainesii is a species of geophyte of 15–25 cm (5.9–9.8 in) high that is assigned to the family Iridaceae. It sometimes grows in tufts. The approximately upright leaf blades appear directly from the ground, are narrow, sword- to line-shaped and have a left and right surface, rather than an upper and lower surface, and far exceed the flowers in length. The leaf blades are pleated. The inflorescence stem is fully underground and often branched. It contains two to eight blue, violet or mauve mirror-symmetrical flowers comprising six tepals. B. bainesii has a wide distribution and occurs in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, southernmost Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Babiana bainesii has a large distribution that covers the summer rainfall areas of south Africa, from the Great Karoo on the border of the Western Cape and Northern Cape provinces, through North West, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, on to Botswana, Zimbabwe and southernmost Zambia, and in Namibia. It grows in bushland and dry grassland on sandy and stony flats and slopes. It is considered a least concern species.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Babiana bainesii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
