Rhizome small; roots tuberous; tubers ellipsoidal, 2-6 cm long, 5-6 mm diam., 3-8 cm from stock. Leaves 1 or 2, terete to slightly angled, 12-30 cm long, glabrous to scabridulous, ±withering before flowering. Inflorescence usually a single, 1-4-flowered umbel, rarely paniculate; scape 12-50 cm long; pedicels 7-10 mm long, elongating to c. 20 mm in fruit, articulated at c. ⅓ length from base. Perianth segments 13-17 mm long. Sepals narrowly linear, 1.5-3 mm wide. Petals elliptic, c. 4.5-6 mm wide; fimbriae 2-4 mm long. Stamens 6; anthers twisted, 3 outer 3-4 mm long, 3 inner 7.5-10 mm long and curved. Style curved, 7.5-10 mm long. Seeds flattened, ±cylindrical, 0.8 mm long, 1 mm diam.; aril orange.
Grows in open sand heath with mallee eucalypts, occasionally in damper situations, in sand or loamy sand. Reported in S.A. from low scrub in fine, sandy-loam soil on limestone.
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