Bulbinella divaginata P.L.Perry

Plants small to medium-sized, up to 0.45 m above ground, solitary or clumps of up to 5 plants together. Roots fascicled, 5-20 fusiform up to 150 mm long, 8 mm at the widest, a few thin absorptive laterals arising towards apices, skin light to chestnut-brown, yellow internally; many withered remains of old roots remaining. Stem disc 7 mm long, 4 mm wide, orange internally. Fibrous sheathing neck showing two distinct regions, the outer consisting of old loose bristle-like fibres, up to 80 mm long, 14 mm wide, fine, straight or somewhat reticulate, light brown to greyish, inner region formed of several layers of membranous, white cataphylls up to 90 mm long and conspicuous beyond old outer fibres; upper part showing fine reticulate strands as thin tissue between starts disintegrating; inner two cataphylls usually shorter than outer. Leaves usually numerous, up to 40, but may be as few as 4, only partly developed at an thesis; laminas fully developed some weeks after flowering, all ± the same size, filiform, semiterete, up to 500 x 1.0-1.5 mm, dark green, glabrous; margin without denticulations. Raceme narrowly cylindrical, 25-175 mm long, up to 20 mm wide, with 20-150 flowers; peduncle terete, 100-150 mm long, 1-2 mm in diameter; bracts somewhat variable, either small, ±1 mm long and wide, ovate, attenuate, membranous, transparent and inconspicuous especially in bud stage, or becoming more attenuate and up to 3 mm long. Flowers stellate, 7-9 mm in diameter; pedicels up to 7 mm long, green. Tepals subequal, oval to elliptic, shallowly cymbiform, bright yellow. Filaments filiform, apiculate, ±3 mm long, 0.5 mm at widest near base, yellow. Ovary ovoid to subglobose, a little more than 1 mm long, 1 mm wide, yellow; style cylindrical, 1.5 mm long, yellow. Capsule 5 mm long, 3.5 mm wide, light brown. Seed 3.5-4.0 mm long, 1.75-2.0 mm wide, with yellow to orange, thin, flaky covering over shiny black testa.