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Raceme ± laxly few-to many-flowered, (3)5–18(23) cm long, narrowly cylindrical, flowers and fruit often occurring together in the same raceme; bracts membranous, 2.5–5.5 mm long, ovate to lanceolate, with the midrib produced into a subulate apex, exauriculate, persistent; pedicels ± spaced, mostly erect to ascending sometimes spreading, filiform or slender, from c. 3–4 mm long increasing to c. 13 mm long in fruit, straight, ± recurved at the apical end in barren pedicels, persistent.
Succulent, acaulescent, perennial herb; rosettes erect, solitary, with tuberous base, crowned by a dense ring of erect bristles. Leaves green, semi-terete, up to 230 mm long, erect, in basal rosette. Inflorescence erect to slightly curved, up to 0.7 m high, with lax racemes; bracts white, transparent, base truncate, apex acuminate-caudate, margins entire; pedicels recurved when barren. Flowers yellow. Flowering time Oct.-Feb.
Succulent, perennial herb; acaulescent, base tuberous, crowned by a dense ring of erect bristles. Leaves in a basal rosette; blade semiterete, up to 230 mm long, green. Flowers: inflorescences 1-3, erect to slightly curved, racemes lax; bracts white, transparent, apex acuminate-caudate, base truncate, margins entire; pedicels recurved when barren; perianth yellow; Oct.-Feb. Fruit with capsule not inflated.
Geophyte, 80-400 mm tall, tuber basally flattened with laterally spreading roots. Leaves 5 or 6, usually withered at flowering, linear, ± erect, curving when withering, clasped below into a (40-)75-150 mm long neck of soft, matted fibres. Flowers in 1-3, long, dense, racemes, yellow. Capsule globose, ovoid, ± 5 mm long.
Tubers 6–20 mm long and 7–25 mm in diameter, subglobose or ovoid and flattened at the base, usually with 3–5 radiating branches; branches thick fleshy, up to c. 7 cm long and 3–10 mm in diameter, deltoid or terete, tapering into long fibrous roots.
Geophyte, 8-40 cm, rootstock a tuber. Leaves, usually dry at flowering, linear to filiform, enclosed below by a long, softly or stiffly fibrous neck. Flowers in a long, dense raceme, usually yellow, fragrant. Capsules globose, ascending.
Seeds 1–4 per locule, c. 2–3 mm, pyramidal, not winged, convex on the outer face with 2–3 flat inner faces tapering to the point of attachment, black, sometimes with a reticulate pattern of low incipient ridges on the surface.
Perennial herb, up to 200 mm tall, acaulescent, with a globose tuber, 15-20 mm in diameter, crowned by a dense ring of erect bristles 20-30 mm long. Leaves 6-8, subterete, erect, linear. Flowers yellow.
Filaments c. 4–5 mm long, the outer densely bearded with long yellow hairs in the upper part, the inner bearded above but also with hairs along the margins to the base; anthers c. 1 mm long.
Geophyte, 15-50 cm, rootstock a tuber. Leaves dry at flowering, few, linear to filiform. Flowers in a lax raceme, yellow, fragrant. Capsules globose, erect.
Perennial herb 10–55(72) cm tall from a ± fleshy tuber-like base; plants solitary not clustered, erect, glabrous or leaves ± puberulous.
Capsule not inflated when mature, stipitate, c. 4–5 mm long and 3–3.5 mm wide, obovoid, ± shallowly 3-lobed.
Tepals yellow, 6–7.5 mm long, the inner 3–4 mm wide, the outer 1.5–2.5 mm wide, elliptic, persistent.
Peduncles 1–3 per plant, erect, 7–40(50) cm long, terete.
Style 3–5 mm long, terete.
Stems absent.
