Compilation
Lapeirousia sandersonii

Plants (15-)20-45 cm. high. Corm 8-16 mm. in diameter at the base, tunics blackish, of densely compacted fibres, sometimes becoming softly fibrous. Leaves 3-4, the lower 2-3 longest and 1/3-2/3 as long as the stem, the upper decreasing in size and becoming progressively bract-like above; basal leaves 2-3, linear to lanceolate, sometimes somewhat falcate, (2-)4-8(-11) mm. wide, only the midrib prominent when alive. Stem compressed and 2-angled below, branched repeatedly, 3-angled above. Inflorescence a several-many-branched panicle, often assuming an umbellate appearance, the ultimate branches bearing (2-)3-6(-8) flowers, these often crowded terminally; bracts 3-6 mm. long, green below, dry and membranous above in bud, becoming entirely dry and transparent, brownish in the upper third, the outer obtuse, usually slightly longer than the inner. Flower zygomorphic, blue to violet, the lower tepals each with a hastate white mark outlined dark blue to purple (or crimson red outside the Flora area); perianth-tube 6-11(-14) mm. long, slender below, slightly curved and expanded near the throat; tepals subequal, lanceolate-spathulate, acute to obtuse, 6-11 × 2-3(-4) mm., lying nearly in one plane, the uppermost held apart and reclined, the lower 3 closely aligned, narrow at base thus ± clawed, united for ± 1 mm. Filaments 4-6 mm. long; anthers 2.5-4 mm. long. Style dividing opposite the upper half of the anthers, the branches 1-1.5 mm. long, forked for 1/3-1/2 their length. Capsules 3-4 mm. long. Fig. 4/1-2.