Trachyandra involucrata (Baker) Oberm.

Small gnarled, woody shrubs up to 60 cm high. Roots many, slightly thickened, lanate. Stems ca. 1 cm in diam. at the base, 3 mm in diam. near the tips. Leaves in tufts near the apex usually on short young branches; leaf-bases forming a membranous, wide, conspicuous tube sometimes produced into a denticulate point opposite the lamina; lamina terete, succulent, ca. 17 cm long, ca. 6 mm in diam. glaucous, glabrous, canaliculate, long acuminate in upper half. Inflorescence simple or branched, up to26 cm long; bracts small, 7 mm long, acuminate, scarious; pedicels up to 2 cm long in fruit, recurved in an S-shaped loop. Flower with perianth rotate, immaculate, white, »segments 10 mm long, 2 mm broad: filaments spreading, scabrid; ovary globose with about 9 biseriate ovules per cell. Capsule pendulous narrowly ovoid, 18 mm long, tapered below and above; opening at the apex where the points then recurve giving it a 3 horned appearance. Seeds (immature) verrucose?.