Rootstock small; roots tuberous; tubers stalked, 1-1.5 cm long. Leaves annual, 5-27, linear, channelled, ridged on ventral surface, 10-28 cm long, c. 2-3 mm wide, ridges and margins usually tuberculately hairy. Inflorescence paniculate, few-branched; scape striate, tuberculately hairy on ridges, 7-44 cm long; umbels 1-4-flowered; pedicels 8-17 mm long, articulated near base, nodding in fruit. Perianth segments 6.5-13 mm long, occasionally white. Sepals lanceolate, 2.5 mm wide, mucronate. Petals elliptic, 5.5 mm wide; fimbriae 4 mm long. Stamens 6; anthers curved, dehiscing by slits, 3 outer 2-4 mm long, 3 inner 2.5-5 mm long. Style c. 4 mm long. Seeds ±spherical, c. l.5 mm diam.; aril straw-coloured.
In W.A. grows in low open forest of Jarrah-Marri (Eucalyptus marginata-E. calophylla ), Wandoo (E. wandoo ) or Acacia spp., mostly in heavier or sandy loamy soils. In S.A. recorded among rocks in association with Casuarina stricta .
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