Botanical name

Geissorhiza schinzii

Family

Iridaceae

Common Name

Satinflower
Geissorhiza schinzii

Description

Eye-catching cormous geophyte up to 20cm. Leaves linear, sticky, 4-6mm wide, margins and midrib thickened, forming two narrow grooves on each surface. Flowers in 1-4 flowered spike, pink with darker veins, perianth tube 24-32mm long, tepals spreading, 35-40mm long; bracts green and sticky.

After: Hans Schinz (1858-1941), Swiss professor of systematic botany and Director of the Botanical Garden in Zurich, an explorer and botanist who collected in South Africa and Namibia.

Habitat

Stony sandstone slopes

Flower Date

August to October, mostly after fire