Bulbinella triquetra Kunth

Plants small, up to 350 mm high, solitary or in small clumps. Roots.fascicled, either entirely thickened more or less evenly, up to 100 mm long, 2-3 mm in diameter or with wiry basal region and swollen spindle-shaped end, 20-30 mm long, 4 mm in diameter, pale yellow. Stem disc 4 mm high, 4 mm wide, pale yellow. Fibrous sheathing neck up to 65 mm high, 20 mm wide, fibres fine to medium coarse, straight, not reticulate, loose, untidy, bristle-like. Leaves 10-40, usually many, erect, subequal, basal part expanded to form a sheath, outer completely encircling inner leaves and scape, expanded part becoming progressively narrower on inner leaves, whitish, membranous, veins reddish; lamina filiform, trigonous, up to 180 x 1.0-1.5 mm, light green; margin very finely, irregularly toothed. Raceme subcorymbose to cylindrical with rounded apex, or narrowly conical, 20-80 mm long, 20-24 mm wide, becoming up to 150 mm long in bud and fruit together, with 50-80 flowers; peduncle 300 mm long, 2 mm in diameter, reddish to green; bracts triangular, 2-4 mm long, broad-based, apex acuminate, membranous, colourless with a brown midrib. Flowers stellate, 8-9 mm in diameter; pedicels up to 8 mm long, yellowish green. Tepals broadly elliptic, connate at extreme base, 3 x 2 mm, bright yellow. Filaments filiform, apiculate, 3.5-4.0 mm long, yellow, adnate to base of tepals. Ovary globose, ±1 mm long, yellow; style 2.5 mm long, yellow. Capsule globose to ovoid, 4 mm long, 3.5-4.0 mm in diameter, bright green becoming fawn on drying. Seeds greyish black, 2.0-3.5 mm long, 1.75 mm in diameter, with indistinct wing extensions.