Iris juncea Poir., Voy. Barbarie 2: 85 (1789)
Bulb ovoid, one and a half to two inches long, covered with dark brown membranous coats that are produced into a torn tube surrounding the base of the stem. Stem erect, slender, rigid, flexuous, two-thirds to one and a half feet high. Leaves 5-6 on the stem, convolute at the base, terminating in a very slender rigid flat limb not one-twelth inch broad. Flowers solitary or two together, three inches in diameter, golden yellow, with brownish veins. Spathes two, ventricose, as long as or exceeding the perianth-tube, lanceolate, acute. Pedicel short, lengthening in front. Perianth-tube slender, one and a half inch long; outer segments with an obovate retuse limb as long as the cuneate claw; inner segments erect, spathulate-lanceolate, rather shorter than the outer. Stigmatic lobes broadly half-ovate, acute, as broad as the inner perianth segments.