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 Zimbabwe: 2 cultivated taxa. |
No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species |
| Species | Content |
| bicolor (Steud.) Sweet ex Klatt | |
| grandiflora N.E. Br. |