Trachyandra margaretae Oberm.

Hard, grasslike plants growing in clumps up to 60 cm high. Roots hard, thin, woody. Rhizome small, woody. Leaves terete or linear, up to 40 cm long, 2 mm broad, canaliculate or rolled, ribbed, hard, sparsely hairy with small patent hairs or nearly glabrous, leaf-bases persistent as fibres. Inflorescence simple, glabrous, flowers at first congested near the apex, rhachis elongating during anthesis; scape terete; bracts small, clasping the pedicel, subulate, fimbriate; pedicels ascending, up to 12 mm long. Flowers with white, glabrous perianth segments 1 cm long; filaments very shortly scabrid; ovary densely covered with long erect hairs; ovules 4-6 per cell. Capsule not seen.