Ferraria flava Goldblatt & J.C.Manning

Plants ± acaulescent, up to 120 mm high, excluding leaves. Stem with (2)4 or 5 primary branches produced from below or shortly above ground level, each with several secondary branches, crowded basally and congested, together bearing up to 50 rhipidia. Leaves suberect, 5 to 7, sword-shaped, up to 300 mm long, lower 3 to 5 much exceeding spathes and flowers, mostly 12-20 mm wide, glaucous, ± succulent, without visible main vein. Rhipidia 2-flowered, numerous, crowded on short, ± horizontal or ascending branches; spathes green, margins transparent, inner mostly 40-55 mm long, outer ± 2/3 as long, usually entirely sheathing or diverging above, apex curving inward. Flowers on pedicels up to 10 mm long; clear yellow, tepal limbs with minute blue-green spots in lower 1/3, margins slightly paler in colour, claws translucent white inside, forming a floral cup 14-15 mm deep, 8-9 mm wide at rim, tepals limbs spreading, crisped, usually sweet vanilla-scented, nectaries at tepal bases pale green; outer tepals ± 30 x 10 mm, inner tepal limbs ± 12 x 5 mm, claws of both whorls ± 15 mm long. Filaments united in a column 11-12 mm long, free and diverging in upper ± 1 mm; anthers pale yellow with dark purple-brown on lines of dehiscence, ± 3.5 mm long, shorter after dehiscence, thecae joined at apices, widely diverging; pollen pale yellow. Ovary ellipsoid, 20-25 mm long, with sterile beak ± 10 mm long, style branches ± 3 mm long, with diverging, prominently fringed arms, ± 5 mm long; stigmas on small lobes below tips of style arms and arching over anthers. Capsules and seeds unknown.