Sparaxis is a genus in the Iridaceae family that is endemic to South Africa and found mostly in the southwestern Cape and the western Karoo.

Sparaxis galeata, commonly known as Hood Satinflower and synonymously known as Anactorion galeatum, Gladiolus galeatus, Hebea galeata, Synnotia bicolor and Synnotia galeata, is a rare South African endemic species found in the Northern Cape and Western Cape provinces where it occupies dry, arid stony clay flats and slopes, on seasonally moist sands. It grows from 12 to 20 cm and flowers from July to mid-September. Leaves are lanceolate and usually prostrate or inclined towards the ground with speckled purple on the sheaths. Flowers are short tubed, bilaterally symmetrical and very fragrant (sweetly scented of freesia). Lower tepals are deep yellow, the uppermost grey-purple paling towards the margins and the upper laterals are purple fading to cream; the throat is streaked purple and yellow.