Glia decidua B.-e.van Wyk

Perennial geophyte with slender, unbranched stems arising from short, persistent woody caudex at ground level; root single, large, ±200 x 80 mm, fleshy. Leaves pinnate to bipinnate, very variable, up to 280 mm long, foliaceous, with broad segments, minutely scabrous, bright green or glaucous; cauline leaves absent or few, with linear segments. Inflorescence usually branched, with conspicuous bracts along peduncle; lateral branches usually with solitary terminal umbel and no lateral umbels; lateral umbels smaller than terminal umbel, usually extending above terminal umbel; rays (3-)5 or 6(7), thick, 35-50(-110) mm long; raylets 6-20, 2-3 mm long. Flowers 4-5 mm long; petals yellow or flushed with red. Fruit ovate-oblong to broadly oblong in dorsal and lateral view, large, 8-10 x 4-5 mm, mericarps markedly dorsally compressed, median and lateral ribs thick and distinct, marginal wings distinct but not winged.

It is a subtropical plant.