The genus Ixia consists of a number of cormous plants native to South Africa from the Iridaceae family and Ixioideae subfamily. Some of them are known as the corn lily. Some distinctive traits include: sword-like leaves, and long wiry stems with star-shaped flowers. It usually prefers well-drained soil. They have a specific but not very intense fragrance of vegetables. That is why it is often visited by many insects such as bees.

Ixia ramulosa, synonymously known as Ixia latifolia var. ramulosa, is a rare range-restricted South African endemic species found in the Northern Cape and Western Cape from Kamieskroon to the Bokkeveld Escarpment and the Koebee Mountains growing amongst fynbos in granitic sand or light clay loam. Flowers are produced from late August to early October, or early November at higher elevations. It has three leaves with the uppermost sheathing the stem, slightly twisted 2 or 3 flowered branches and purple with a white throat or mauve or white with a yellow throat flowers. Stamens are exserted.