Dasypogon obliquifolius Nees

Stems to 1 m high, simple or branched, 5 mm diam. Leaves crowded along lower half of stem, to 15 cm long, becoming curled with age, 3-4 mm wide above broad base, tapering; margins shortly and irregularly scabrid. Scape terminal, with scattered leaf-like bracts becoming subulate toward apex, tomentose with reflexed scabrid hairs. Inflorescence 2-2.5 cm diam.; floral bracts lanceolate to narrowly obovate, some with pungent exserted apices. Perianth 7 mm long; sepals coarsely hirsute outside, scabrid to pubescent where exserted. Stamens 10-11 mm long; anthers 1.5 mm long. Style and ovary 10-11 mm long.

Grows in sand in heath, sometimes in low open woodland.