Ferraria macrochlamys (Baker) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning

Plants mostly 70-100 mm high, forming low tufts. Stem few-to several-branched (rarely simple), branches crowded close to base, branches and spathes all ± same length. Leaves narrowly sword-shaped to linear, mostly (2.0-)4.5-7.0 mm wide, ± straight, or all curving to same side, or serpentine (loosely wavy in concertina fashion), tips oblique or hooked, sometimes densely papillate-ciliate; margins heavily thickened then sometimes velvety, often irregularly serrulate or crenate, sometimes slightly crisped. Rhipidia 2-flowered; inner spathes 37-62 mm long, abaxial margins sometimes crisped, outer 24-50 mm long, usually entirely sheathing, or free distally, often hooked at apex. Flowers on pedicels 10-23 mm long; pale watery yellow with slightly darker yellow to light brown margins, outer tepal limbs often minutely speckled grey-blue at base, with a narrow cup, 9-13 mm deep, 5-7 mm wide at rim, with a faint, green apple or slightly sour odour; outer tepals 26-32 mm long, limbs spreading to slightly reflexed, inner tepals 26-28 mm long, limbs often ultimately ± reflexed, claws of both whorls 10-14 mm long. Filaments united in a column 10-12 mm long, free and diverging in upper ± 1 mm; anthers 2.2-3.0 mm long, thecae divergent; pollen orange. Ovary ellipsoid, 15-20 mm long with beak 7-15 mm long; style branches 1.0-1.5 mm long, with diverging, prominently fringed arms, 1.0-1.5 mm long; stigmas on small lobes below tips of style arms and arching over anthers. Capsules 15-20 mm long excluding beak. Seeds angular, mostly 5-or 6-sided, ± 2.7-3.0 mm diam., dark brown, facets slightly wrinkled.