Caesia R.Br.

Stemless herbs. Rhizome very short. Roots fibrous, fleshy or tuberous. Leaves basal, subulate to linear, expanded at the base to form a sheath. Inflorescence a raceme or more often a panicle. Pedicels 1-3-nate, in the axils of bracts and usually associated with a few smaller bracts also apparently in the axil of the principal bract, articulated usually in the distal half. Perianth segments free or shortly connate, subequal, 3-veined, spreading. Filaments filiform or linear, glabrous, attached to the receptacle or to the base of the perianth segments; anthers basifixed, oblong, dehiscing introrsely. Ovary superior, sessile, globose or subglobose, 3-celled; ovules axile, 2 in each locule; style filiform, simple, minutely capitate. Capsule dehiscing loculicidally; perianth segments adhering, marcescent, twisting spirally after flowering. Seeds angular or globose, usually solitary in each locule.

Usually in the open, but also in savanna.