Just Say No to Abuse Declaring War on Terrorism. The Ixia is closely related to the Freesia. It is a family of over thirty species Plants with a corm covered with fibrous tunics.
Leaves are in two erect ranks, deciduous.
Inflorescence is simple or branched in a dense or loose spike. Stems are thin and wiry. The flowers have a long or short perianth tube and more or less equal spreading segments. Fruit is a capsule of small, brown, angled seeds. The name Ixia is derived from an old Greek name for a plant noted for the variability of its coloring.