Albuca abyssinica Jacq.

Bulb 4-5 broad, 3 cm high, truncate, the outer tunics membranous. Leaves 30-45 cm long, the outermost broadest, 4 cm broad at the base and clasping the inner ones, gradually tapering to the tail-like apex, margin incurved, glaucous, the outer leaves with several parallel rows of hairs on the back, the inner leaves with fewer rows of hairs and the hairs more irregularly placed or almost glabrous; hairs about 2 mm long. Inflorescence about 80 cm high; raceme about 30 cm long, 40-50-flowered; peduncle 7 mm diam., glaucous, glabrous; bracts linear from a lanceolate base, shorter than the pedicels, pedicels erecto-patent, stiff, up to 2 cm long. Perianth 2.5-2.7 cm long, yellowish-green in bud and greenish-yellow later, the segments with very faint keels; outer segments 8 mm broad, slightly hooded, half-spreading, inner segments 11-12 mm broad, hooded but without appendages, connivent. Stamens all fertile, curved into two planes, the lower 3 about level with the style, the upper 3 disposed under the adaxial segment; filaments flattened below with margins folded together 5 mm above the base; anthers oblong. Ovary 7 mm long, 5 mm broad, somewhat triangular, carpels with an oblique flattened apical portion with acute margins and a central rib passing into the style. Style cylindric, about 15 mm long, very shallowly grooved; stigma entire.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in wet places in hilly savannah.