Hesperantha baurii Baker

Plants mostly 150-500 mm high. Corm ± globose, slightly asymmetric with obliquely flattened side, 19-15 mm diam.; tunics woody, imbricate, splitting from base into truncate sections. Stem simple or sometimes branched from near base. Leaves usually 4, sometimes 5 or only 3, lower 2(3) basal, with well-developed blades reaching up to base of spike, (3)4-7 mm wide, sword-shaped to falcate, margins and main vein visibly thickened; upper 2 leaves cauline and largely or completely sheathing. Spike flexuose, mostly 3-to 12(-18)-flowered; bracts mostly 10-15 mm long, sometimes flushed red distally. Flowers diurnal, pale to deep pink, not scented; perianth tube (6.5-)8.0-12.5 mm long, cylindric, dilated at throat; tepals 12-21 x 5-6 mm, elliptic to obovate, spreading. Filaments ascending, ± 2.5 mm long, inserted at base of outer tepals; anthers 6-8 mm long, yellow; pollen yellow. Style branches 8-10 mm long, spreading, reaching to upper 1/3 or shortly beyond anthers in closed flower. Capsules ± ovoid-oblong, 8-9 x ± 5 mm. Seeds light brown, angular, angles narrowly ridged, pale.

Moist grassland to 2450 metres.

The corm or bulb is eaten as a snack.

They can be grown from fresh seed or offsets.