Hesperantha glabrescens Goldblatt

Plants 30-50 mm high. Corm ovoid, 4-6 mm diam.; tunics woody, concentric. Stem unbranched, smooth, bearing a scale-like bract shortly below spike. Leaves 3, lower 2 falcate, upper suberect, largely sheathing, blades 1.0-1.3 mm wide, margins and veins sparsely hairy, margins and main vein slightly thickened. Spike 1(2)-flowered; bracts ± 6 mm long, purplish, becoming dry and brown above. Flowers diurnal, rotate, magenta, unscented; perianth tube cylindric, expanded near apex, ± 3.5 mm long; tepals subequal, elliptic, 8 x 2 mm, spreading at right angles to tube. Filaments suberect, ± 2 mm long; anthers 3 mm long, yellow; pollen yellow. Style branches ± 3.5 mm long, purple, spreading.