Geissorhiza tricolor Goldblatt & J.C.Manning

Plants 100-150(-200) mm high. Corm obliquely globose, asymmetric and flattened slightly below on one side, 5-6 mm diam., tunics concentric, brown, hard and woody, fragmenting irregularly into sections. Stem erect, simple or 1-or 2-branched, either from base or from upper nodes. Leaves 6 to 8, lower 4 or 5 basal and largest, lanceolate to sword-shaped, short and mostly < 1/3 as long as stem, 15-50 x (2-)3-5 mm, upper decreasing progressively in size, uppermost bract-like and often without blade. Spike (1)2-or 3-flowered; bracts green, flushed reddish distally, elliptic, (12-)15-18 mm long, subequal, inner not notched apically. Flowers rotate, golden-yellow with glossy blackish maroon eye covering basal 1/4 of tepals, yellowish green in tube, outer tepals flushed reddish on reverse, unscented; perianth tube funnel-shaped, 3-4 mm long; tepals broadly obovate-quadrate, margins irregularly crenulate in distal half, 15-18 mm long, outer 10-11 mm wide, inner 12-14 mm wide. Filaments equal, ± 3 mm long, exserted for ± 1 mm, dark maroon; anthers ± 5 mm long at anthesis; pollen yellow. Style eccentric, ± 6 mm long, dark maroon, exserted ± 1 mm, dividing opposite lower 1/2 of anthers, branches 2.5-3.0 mm long.