Thysanotus manglesianus Kunth

Rootstock small; roots tuberous; tubers sessile or pedicellate, ovate-ellipsoidal, c. 2-5 cm long. Leaves annual, produced infrequently, 1 or 2, terete, 10-20 cm long. Stem 1, annual, leafless, terete and hirsute at base, becoming quadrangular and glabrous above, usually 10-100 cm long, twining round vegetation or prostrate; branches usually many, dichotomous. Flowers single on branches; pedicels 2-5 mm long, articulated below middle. Perianth segments 10.5-16 mm long. Sepals linear, c. 2.5-3 mm wide. Petals elliptic, c. 6 mm wide; fimbriae c. 2.5 mm long. Stamens 6; 3 outer anthers c. 4 mm long, 3 inner c. 6 mm long and curved, all dehiscing by pores. Style c. 7-8 mm long. Seeds ±spherical, c. 1.5 mm diam.; aril straw-coloured.

Grows in sandplain and also in mallee and forest dominated by eucalypts in soils ranging from sand to sandy loam to lateritic gravel.