Geissorhiza lapidosa Goldblatt & J.C.Manning

Plants ± acaulescent, 20-40 mm high. Corm obliquely ovoid with narrow flat side, 4-5 mm diam., tunics woody, dark, blackish, concentric. Stem smooth, flushed red, not or barely extending above ground, unbranched. Leaves 4, lower 2 basal, third leaf inserted at or shortly above ground, linear-falcate, exceeding spike, 0.5-1.0 mm wide, thick and leathery, elliptic in section when fresh, glaucous with margins often reddish, uppermost leaf cauline, entirely sheathing. Spike 1-or 2-flowered; bracts leathery and glaucous flushed reddish but submembranous and finely flecked with brownish red on margins, outer truncate or obscurely tricuspidate, 4-5 mm long, inner as long or slightly shorter, notched at apex. Flowers actinomorphic, rotate, white with outer tepals reddish pink outside; perianth tube funnel-shaped, 2.0-2.5 mm long; tepals oblanceolate, ± 6 x 2 mm. Filaments erect, equal, 3.5-4.0 mm long; anthers 1.5-2.0 mm long, ± white; pollen white. Style dividing opposite lower 1/2 of anthers, branches 1.5-2.0 mm long.