Trachyandra gerrardii (Baker) Oberm.

Plants up to 60 cm. Roots long, spreading, thin near the rhizome but younger parts fusiform. Rhizome compact, woody, densely covered with fibres. Leaves triquetrous, variable in length and width, 10-40 cm long, each face 2-10 mm broad, with patent setae, margin prominent, often minutely glandular papillate. Inflorescence a divaricate raceme, often with accessory branches in lower axils; flower buds at first congested at the apex, rhachis elongating during anthesis, and the capsules eventually laxly arranged; scape and side branches setose or with scabrid, obtuse tubercles, topped with stipitate, evanescent glands and often very densely glandular-pubescent; bracts variable in size, lowest up to 3 cm including the very long soft awn, upper floral bracts small, deltoid, subulate, keel glandular-pubescent; pedicels at first ascending, later patent, finally with the apex recurved or sometimes making a complete loop, up to 15 mm long, densely to sparsely scabrid-glandular, very seldom glabrous. Flowers with perianth glandular on the outside, white, dark-keeled, maculate with purple spots, segments spreading 10-15 mm long; filaments scabrid, erect; ovary densely glandular pubescent, with 4-6 ovules per cell. Capsule globose, 1 cm in diam. stipitate, densely covered with long pectinate tubercles which are gland-tipped. Seeds round, 2 mm in diam. shortly verrucose, dark, ridges suppressed except for a small ridge near hilum.