Aristea pauciflora Wolley-dod

Plants 200-400 mm high, forming tufts. Stem elliptic in section, 2-angled to narrowly winged, usually unbranched with sessile lateral flower clusters. Leaves linear, leathery, mostly 2-4 mm wide, oval in cross section with rounded edges and without defined margins. Flower clusters 2 to 4, each (2)3-or 4-flowered; spathes greenish becoming dry and blackish above, 15-20 mm long, bracts dry, shorter than spathes. Flowers deep blue, upright; tepals subequal, 15-22 x 8-10 mm, outer slightly shorter than inner. Filaments ± 3.5 mm long; anthers 3-4 mm long. Ovary cylindric-trigonous; style ± 9 mm long; stigma lobes broad, fringed. Capsules elongate, 3-lobed, lobes acutely angled, woody, indehiscent, (20-)25-35 mm long. Seeds triangular-columnar, many per locule in a single row, surface smooth.