Hesperantha erecta Benth. & Hook.F.

Plants (60-)120-220 mm high. Corm ovoid, with obliquely flattened side, 6-8 mm diam.; tunics dark brown, ± concentric layers fragmenting into elliptic segments. Stem unbranched, smooth. Leaves 3(5), linear to lanceolate, mostly basal, reaching ± to base of spike, (2)5-8 mm wide, soft-textured, main vein and margins barely thickened, uppermost cauline and largely sheathing. Spike mostly 3-to 6-flowered; bracts 8-15 mm long. Flowers diurnal, white to creamy yellow, sometimes outer tepals flushed light brown to grey outside, slightly foetid-smelling; perianth tube funnel-shaped, 8-11 mm long; tepals spreading, narrowly ovate, 10-15 mm long. Filaments ascending, ± 5 mm long; anthers 4-6 mm long, pale yellow; pollen whitish. Style branches spreading, reaching nearly ± middle of anthers in closed flower. Capsules ovoid, 6-9 mm long. Seeds light brown, angular.