Geissorhiza ornithogaloides Klatt

Plants small, 40-70(-100) mm high. Corm either ± ovoid or bell-shaped with broad flat base, 4-6 mm at widest diam.; tunics medium brown, concentric, either fragmenting into elliptic or irregular sections when bell-shaped and lower margins minutely serrated. Stem ± erect, usually branching from cauline leaves. Leaves usually 4, lower 2 basal, linear to lanceolate, erect to falcate, 1-3 mm wide, flat, upper two leaves cauline and sheathing below, sheaths often inflated. Spike 1(rarely 2)-flowered; bracts green, becoming dry above, 7-10 mm long. Flowers actinomorphic, clear yellow, rotate; perianth tube 2-4(-5) mm long, included in bracts; tepals obovate, (6-)8-15(-18) x 3.5-6.0 mm. Filaments erect, equal, 2-4 mm long; anthers 3-6 mm long, yellow; pollen yellow. Style dividing opposite apex of anthers, branches 2-3(-4) mm long. Capsules obovate, 7-9 mm long, usually exceeding bracts.