Bulbinella graminifolia P.L.Perry

Plants medium-sized, up to 0.65 m above ground. Roots fascicled, with swellings proximal and distal, the distal up to 35 mm long, 3 mm in diameter, on a wiry basal part 30 mm long, the proximal ±10 mm long, 5 mm wide, close together at base of stem with thinner laterals from the swollen part and with thin absorptive roots intertwined, skin light fawn, white internally. Stem disc 5 mm across, ±3 mm high, pale yellowish. Fibrous sheathing neck up to 70 mm long, 18 mm wide at base, fibres soft, fine, somewhat reticulate, light fawn-coloured. Leaves erect, 4-9, outer broadening at base to form a complete sheath up to 65 mm long, innermost nonsheathing, membranous; lamina subulate, very gradually tapering, canaliculate to carinate, size varying from outermost ±370 mm long, 6 mm wide, to innermost ±290 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, light to glaucous green; margin with irregular minute transparent crenulations. Raceme narrowly cylindrical, up to 180 mm long, 15 mm wide, with 70-100 flowers; peduncle up to 350 mm long, 1.5 mm in diameter, light green, terete; bracts ovate, attenuate, 3-5 mm long, membranous, colourless, sometimes with a faint green midrib. Flowers stellate, up to 8 mm in diameter; pedicels 5-6 mm long, wiry, whitish. Tepals equal to subequal, 3.5-4.0 x 1.75 mm, white, pale salmon-pink in bud, elliptic, inner somewhat cymbiform. Filaments filiform, apiculate, adnate to base of tepals, 3 mm long, white. Ovary broadly ovoid to globose, ±1 mm long, 1 mm wide, dark green to reddish brown; style cylindrical, nearly 2 mm long, white. Capsule valves 3.5 x 2.5 mm, light fawn-coloured. Seeds, 2.0-2.5 mm long, black, with narrow hyaline extension all round.