Geissorhiza ciliatula Goldblatt

Plants 60-120 mm high. Corm globose, 3.5-5.0 mm diam.; tunics brown, ± imbricate, soft-textured, incised above and below. Stem suberect to inclined, minutely ciliate, unbranched, flexed above sheath of upper leaf. Leaves 2 or 3, linear and straight to falcate, up to 1 mm wide, oblong in section with margins and main vein strongly thickened, thus narrowly 2-grooved on each surface, lowermost leaf basal, longest, second also basal, but sheathing lower half of stem, free distally, uppermost leaf inserted on upper 1/3 of stem, sheathing for at least half its length (sometimes entirely sheathing and bract-like). Spike 1-to 4-flowered, flexuose; bracts 4-5 mm long, green below, membranous to dry and transparent above. Flowers actinomorphic, rotate, white, turning purplish on fading; perianth tube ± l.5 mm long, included in bracts, flaring from base; tepals obovate, 6-7 x 3 mm. Filaments erect, equal, ± 2.5 mm long; anthers ± 2 mm long, yellow. Style dividing opposite apex of anthers, branches ± 1.3 mm long, recurved. Capsules globose, 3-4 mm long, included in bracts.