Trachyandra hirsutiflora (Adamson) Oberm.

Hairy plants up to 60 cm high. Roots many, swollen, spreading, yellow. Rhizome small. Squamae surrounding shoots as well as leaf-and scape-bases, tubular, membranous. Leaves 2-4 per shoot, subterete, canaliculate, up to 50 cm long, 2 mm in diam., hard, striate, scabrid. Inflorescence a tall simple tomentose raceme, sometimes elongating to form a second set of flowers; scape terete, purple, covered with white, straggling hairs; bracts narrow ovate, subulate, hairy; pedicels densely hairy, erect, up to 3 cm in fruit. Flowers with cup shaped perianth, densely hairy, pink or pale mauve on outside, immaculate, segments 12 mm long; stamens shortly scabrid; ovary hairy, with 10 ovules per cell. Capsule dark purple, globose, hairy, 15 mm in diam.