Bulbinella chartacea P.L.Perry

Plants small, up to 0.4 m above ground, solitary. Roots up to 10, fascicled, fusiform, up to 50 mm long, 5 mm in diameter near base of stem, gradually tapering to apex, skin light fawn, white internally; in the growing season also numerous longer thin absorptive roots and the shrivelled remains of many food-storing roots; new shoots noted growing from ends of some of the previous year’s storage roots consisting of a sheath and beginnings of a single leaf. Fibrous sheathing neck 30-50 mm long, up to 15 mm wide, fibres loose, straight, flat, papery, inner almost transparent, outer darker. Leaves 3-5, erect, scarcely developed at flowering time, surrounded at base by a thin, membranous, transparent cataphyll up to 30 mm long, entirely sheathing except top 5 mm, base of outer leaf dilated to form a sheath, remaining leaves not sheathing; laminas of differing lengths, longest up to 320 mm long, 4 mm wide at base, inner shorter and narrower, dark green, fleshy to succulent, canaliculate, glabrous. Raceme narrowly conical, up to 85 mm long, 16 mm wide, with 20-40 flowers; peduncle terete, ±300 mm long, 1.5 mm in diameter, light green to reddish; bracts not conspicuous in bud, 2 mm long, broad at base and surrounding pedicel, attenuate, transparent with red midrib. Flowers stellate to recurved when fully open, ±9 mm in diameter; pedicels wiry, ±5 mm long, yellow-green. Tepals equal to subequal, elliptic, bright yellow with a narrow green midrib. Filaments adnate to base of tepals, filiform, apiculate, 2.0-2.5 mm long, yellow. Ovary ovoid, 1 mm long, narrower than 1 mm, yellow; style cylindrical, 2 mm long, yellow. Capsule ovoid, up to 5.5 mm long, chestnut-brown, shiny. Seed dullish black, up to 4.5 mm long, 3 mm in diameter, wings not pronounced.