Babiana dregei is a species of geophyte in the genus Babiana. It is endemic to the Northern Cape of South Africa, including Namaqualand.
It was named after the brother botanists Carl Friedrich Drege (1791-1867) and Johann Franz Drege (1794-1881) who collected plants in the Cape.
Description The Kamies spikeleaf bobbejaantjie is a geophyte of mustly around , occasionally up to high including the leaves, that survives the hot, dry summer as a round underground corm. Where the stem surfaces, it bends horizontally below the flowers, and it is mostly branched. It is not round in cross section but is edged, and is hairless or with minute hairs along the axis. The leaves are sword- to lance-shaped, hairless, pleated and with conspicuously thickened veins and margins that turn pale yellow when drying, the tip ending in a stiff, hard, and very sharp point. Each flower is subtended by two bracts that are green or dry at the tips, and covered in fine downy hairs. The outer bract is 3½-6 cm long with a ridge on the midline, the inner is ½-1 cm shorter and forked at the tip. Several deep purple-blue to magenta, mirrorsymmetrical flowers, the bottom tepals marked with white splashed in a dark blue edging.
Conservation status Babiana dregei is classified as Least Concern, as the population trend is stable.
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