Ixia acaulis Goldblatt & J.C.Manning

Plants acaulescent, leaves and flowers reaching 20-30 mm above ground, often in small clumps, occasionally branched. Corm narrowly cone-shaped, ± 3-4 mm wide near base, tapering above, ± 15 mm long; tunics moderately to finely fibrous, accumulating with age in a dense mass. Stem unbranched. Leaves 3 to 5, linear to narrowly lanceolate, 1.5-2.0 mm wide, prostrate or inclined, leathery, without thickened margins or main vein. Spike 1-or 2-flowered; bracts membranous, ± 10 mm long, reaching up to 5 mm above ground, outer with upper margin slightly fringed, inner 2-veined and shallowly forked apically. Flowers yellow, whitish in tube, usually faintly sweet-scented; perianth tube 15-20 mm long, arising below ground level, extending ± 10 mm above ground, cylindric; tepals subequal, obtuse to emarginate, 6-7 x ± 3 mm, spreading. Filaments arising at top of tube, ± 1.5 mm long, decurrent; anthers ± 2 mm long. Style dividing at or just beyond mouth of tube, branches short, ± 1 mm long, apices emerging between filaments.