Trachyandra aridimontana J.C.Manning

Small, gnarled woody shrubs to 450 mm high. Roots many, slightly thickened, lanate. Stems caudiciform, woody, branched, branches 5-15 mm in diameter. Leaves in apical tufts, usually on short young shoots, lasting for a single growing season, the plants leafless during summer; leaf bases forming a conspicuous membranous amplexicaul sheath, often with a fimbriate or laciniate margin; lamina linear, attenuate, canaliculate and succulent, smooth, 30-120 mm x 3-7 mm, glaucous with paler yellowish bases, the lowest sometimes reduced to a denticulate point. Peduncle to 220 mm long, terete, glaucous, inflorescence usually a simple raceme but sometimes with a lateral branch from the lowest bract instead of a flower, many-flowered from near the base, fairly lax. Bracts ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, 3-8 mm long, scarious with brown keel, margins usually minutely fimbriate. Pedicels patent, 1-
 long in flower. Perianth held vertically, rotate, 15-20 mm in diameter, faintly and pleasantly scented; outer tepals elliptic to linear, somewhat clawed in the basal 2mm, subacute, 11-13 x 2-3.5 mm, white with green midrib, immaculate; inner tepals ovate to narrowly elliptic, somewhat clawed in the basal 1.5 mm, obtuse,11-13 x 3-5.5 mm, white with green midrib and paired yellow maculae immediately above the claw. Filaments somewhat spreading, filiform and tapering to the base, scabrid with short retrorse trichomes but glabrescent basally, inner narrower and a little longer than the outer,8-9 mm long; anthers versatile, ca. 1.5 mm long, yellow pollen yellow. Ovary ovoid, ca. 1.5 mm long, green, ovules 8-9 per loculus; style filiform, 7-8 mm long, white; stigma minute, penicillate. Fruit a capsule, narrowly ovoid, 8-12 x 4 mm, borne erect on a stout, erect pedicel 5-9 mm long. Seeds elliptic, outer surface keeled and with a median glossy macula, inner surface with a prominent ridge, black with pale brown verrucae, 3 x 1.5 mm.