Rootstock small; roots tuberous; tubers shortly pedicellate, cylindrical, 3-4 cm long, 4 mm wide. Leaves annual, 3 or 4, flat basally, ±terete above, 15-18 cm long, lower margins ciliate. Inflorescence paniculate, dichotomously branched, c. 20-24 cm long, with scattered patent hairs basally; umbels l-or 2-flowered; pedicels 6-7 mm long, articulated at base. Perianth segments c. 10 mm long. Sepals linear to narrowly lanceolate, l.5 mm wide, with recurved mucro. Petals elliptic, c. 3.5 mm wide; fimbriae c. 1-1.5 mm long. Stamens 6; anthers dehiscing by slits, 3 outer 3 mm long, 3 inner 4 mm long and slightly curved. Style straight to slightly curved, 3.5-4 mm long. Seeds ±spherical, c. 1 mm diam.; aril straw-coloured.
Grows in depressions in low woodland dominated by eucalypts, with occasional acacias, or in Acacia-Casuarina scrub, in clayey or sandy loamy soils.
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