Trachyandra gracilenta Oberm.

Grass-like plants up to 40 cm high. Roots many, covered with felted roothairs; with some swellings near the tip. Rhizome small, woody. Leaves linear, rolled, 40 cm long, 1-2 mm broad, ribbed, evenly pubescent with small, white curly hairs, bases persistent but usually not breaking up into fibres. Inflorescence a simple, lax raceme, 20-30 flowered: scape slender terete, minutely pubescent; bracts minute, white, subulate, fimbriate, folded around pedicel: pedicels 15 mm in flower, spreading. Flowers with perianth probably spreading, thin, dark keeled, segments 1 cm long; stamens uniform, shortly scabrid; ovary with ca 6 ovules per cell. Capsule unknown.