Dilatris corymbosa P.J.Bergius

Evergreen perennial, (250-)500-600 mm high. Rootstock a short woody rhizome with bright red flesh. Leaves several, distichous, unifacial, linear, 200-300 x (4-)5-6 mm, leathery, scarcely clasping below, glabrous, flushed red basally. Stem erect, dull greyish, densely whitish lanate above with deflexed, crisped, eglandular hairs 1-3 mm long, glabrescent below; cauline bracts 4 or 5, scattered, foliose, upper bracts villous with appressed hairs 1-3 mm long, lower subglabrous except along margins, gland-dotted. Inflorescence a dense, subumbellate thyrse, branches densely whitish villous with shaggy hairs 2-3 mm long. Flowers numerous, cupped, mauve, erect or ascending in bud and at anthesis, enantiostylous; perianth actinomorphic, tepals suberect, elliptic, persistent, 10-13 x 4-6 mm, villous on outer surface but inner series mostly along midline, conspicuously gland-dotted distally, persistent. Stamens three, dimorphic, scarcely or shortly exserted; filaments unequal, subulate-filiform, adaxial erect, 6-8 mm long with larger yellow anther ±3 mm long, abaxial weakly spreading, 10-13 mm long with smaller reddish anthers 1.0-1.2 mm long. Ovary subglobose, ±3 mm long, densely villous with spreading hairs 2-3 mm long; style filiform, ultimately ±13 mm long, weakly flexed sideways (left or right in any one flower). Capsule 3-locular, ovoid-subglobose, septifragal, ±5 mm long, villous. Seeds solitary in each locule, discoid and shield-shaped, marginally winged, 4 mm diam.