Ixia flexuosa Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 1:51. 1762.

"Habitat ad Cap. b. spei." RCN: 292.

Lectotype (Lewis in J. S. African Bot. 28: 110. 1962): [icon] " Ixia foliis linearibus floribus spicatis sessilibus" in Miller, Fig. Pl. Gard. Dict. 2: 104, t. 156, f. 2. 1757.

Current name: Ixia flexuosa L. ( Iridaceae).