Bulbinella gracilis Kunth

Plants small, up to 0.3 m high, normally solitary. Roots a fascicle of 15-20 fleshy, swollen, finger-like roots of varying lengths, from 5-50 mm, up to 3 mm wide, intermingled with fine, sparsely branched absorptive roots. Sheathing neck consisting of 1 or 2 membranous cataphylls up to 22 mm long, more frequently ±10 mm long, up to 7 mm wide, whitish or fawn-coloured with thin, darker longitudinal lines lower down, fibrous remains lacking or vestigial. Leaves 4-8, encircling peduncle, erect, subequal, up to 240 mm long, 4 mm in diameter, terete or slightly flattened on inner side, tapering very gradually to acute apex, bright green, glabrous, succulent, somewhat flaccid, drying flat. Raceme broadly conical in bud and flower, becoming cylindrical with rounded apex, up to 60 mm long, 25 mm wide, with 20-80 flowers; peduncle terete, up to 300 mm long, 2 mm in diameter, glabrous, bright green; bracts triangular, 1 mm long, partly surrounding base of pedicel. Flowers stellate, up to 8 mm in diameter; pedicels wiry, up to 10 mm long in flower, yellow, remaining in the patent position after the flowers fade and fruits form. Tepals equal, elliptic, slightly cymbiform, 4 x 1.75 mm, rich bright yellow. Filaments filiform, apiculate, 2 mm long, bright yellow. Ovary ovoid to globose, little more than 1 mm long and wide, pale yellow; style cylindrical, 1.5 mm long, yellow. Capsule shorter than surrounding remains of tepals, valves 2.5 x 1.75 mm, light fawn-coloured. Seeds 1.5-2.0 mm long, 1 mm wide, black with narrow, amber-coloured, hyaline extension all round.