Hypoxis costata Baker

Perennial herb, 100-150 mm high; stout, growing singly or in tufts. Rhizome oblong or subglobose, 10-40 mm in diameter. Leaves 4-6(-8), erect or semi-erect, elongating in post flowering; blade flat, oblong-lanceolate, 100-200 x 30-50 mm; strongly ribbed, veins close to each other, uniformly thickened; sparsely hairy, dense on margins and midrib on lower surface (ciliate); hairs biramous with a few stellate, long, weak, white or yellow. Flowers: inflorescence 1-5 per plant, 3-5-flowered, corymbose, appearing with leaves, covered with short, yellow hairs in upper part; pedicels 4-12 mm long; perianth segments 11-17 x 3-5 mm, broadly elliptic, yellow; Sep.-Dec. Fruit a capsule, 5-6 mm long, opening by a circular slit.