Geissorhiza confusa Goldblatt

Plants 120-300 mm high. Corm globose, with oblique flattened base, 12-18 mm diam., tunics woody, brown, concentric, breaking vertically into irregular sections, drawn into points above. Stem ± erect, smooth, flexed at base of spike, rarely with a short branch. Leaves 2 or 3, lowermost basal, largest, usually shortly exceeding spike, up to 300 mm long, ± linear, straight or falcate, 3-7 mm wide, sticky on sheath, margins and main vein, with sand adhering, margins and main vein heavily thickened, blade thus broadly 2-grooved on each surface, remaining leaves short, sheathing for at least half their length, uppermost inserted in middle of stem. Spike inclined, flexuose, 1-to 4(-8)-flowered; outer bracts 30-60 mm long, green, inner membranous, ± half as long. Flowers zygomorphic, stamens and style declinate, creamy white to beige with pink veins, turning pink on fading; perianth tube cylindric, 25-40(-50) mm long, usually exserted up to 15 mm from bracts, curved near apex; tepals obovoid-elliptic, 28-40 x 7-10 mm, outer wider and shorter than inner. Filaments unilateral, declinate, equal, 20-22 mm long; anthers 6-8 mm long, dark purple; pollen brown. Style arching below filaments, dividing opposite or beyond anther tips, branches 3-4 mm long. Capsules ± cylindric, 15-23(-28) mm long.