Bulbinella cauda-felis (L.F.) T.Durand & Schinz

Plants medium-sized, from 0.4-0.8 m high. Roots numerous, fascicled, up to 140 mm long, swollen up to 6 mm in diameter the whole length or with a basal wiry part terminating in a thickened region ±30 mm long, 4 mm in diameter, skin light fawn, flesh whitish. Stem disc ±8 mm in diameter, 5 mm high, white to yellowish. Fibrous sheathing neck with fibres compactly reticulate or coarse, straight, loose, bristle-like. Leaves erect, 5-11, with dilated bases up to 60 mm long, membranous, cream-coloured, sometimes reddish above, outer completely sheathing, inner partly sheathing; lamina narrowly subulate, very gradually tapering to a point, size varying, largest towards outside up to 750 mm long, 9 mm at widest, innermost much shorter, barely 2 mm wide, sometimes all leaves ±2 mm wide but length varying, canaliculate, dark to glaucous green, glabrous or rarely sparsely covered with long hairs; margin entire, or finely irregularly denticulate. Raceme narrowly conical in flower and bud up to 200 mm long, 30 mm wide, in fruit 280 mm long, 10 mm wide, with ±50-150 flowers; peduncle terete, up to 500 mm long, 4 mm wide, bright green; bracts very conspicuous in bud, triangular with a broad base surrounding pedicel, acuminate, 4-6 mm long, margin irregularly serrate. Flowers stellate, up to 13 mm in diameter; pedicels 7-10 mm long, reddish pink, wiry. Tepals equal, elliptic, 5.5 x 2.75 mm, pink in bud, opening to pure white with a pink midrib. Filaments filiform, apiculate, 6 mm long, white. Ovary ovoid to globose, 1 mm long and wide, green sometimes tinged reddish; style 3 mm long, white. Capsule ovoid, 5-6 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, light fawn, somewhat soft, not brittle when dry. Seed 5 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, black, wing extension not obvious, ripe seeds remaining in capsule for some time before dispersal.