Evergreen, perennial herbs, with thick creeping rhizomes. Leaves distichous. Inflorescences of terminal rhipidia; spathes sheathing. Flowers actinomorphic, Iris-like, white with yellow nectar-guides on the outer tepals. Style divided into 3 broad petaloid branches apposed to the outer tepals; each branch terminating in a pair of petaloid appendages (crests); stigmas transverse and abaxial below base of crests. Anthers appressed to the style branches. Fruit a capsule. Worldwide: 6 species in eastern and southern Africa;one in the Lord Howe Is Mozambique: 2 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| flavida Oberm. | M | |
| iridioides (L.) Sweet. ex Klatt | Z,MS,M | Description, Image |