Trachyandra montana J.C.Manning & Goldblatt

Deciduous geophyte, 100-200 mm high. Rhizome short, horizontal; roots slender, lanate, reddish brown, developing tubers ± 100 mm from base, tubers 30-40 x 5-8 mm. Cataphylls surrounding shoots as well as leaf and scape bases, papery, brown, 5-10 mm long. Leaves (1)2, linear-lanceolate, 200-300 x 5-10 mm, plane, firm-textured, somewhat twisted and flexuous, striate with raised, thickened veins, scabrid along veins, bright green flushed pink towards base. Inflorescence a simple raceme; peduncle flexed 20-40 mm from base then inclined to erect, terete, 1.5-2.0 mm diam.at base, densely pubescent with short, straggling hairs; raceme lax, few-to many-flowered, 40-80 mm long; bracts ovate-acuminate, membranous, pubescent at base and along margins and midrib; pedicels 8-10 mm long, suberect in bud but arcuate-spreading at anthesis, becoming erect in fruit and ultimately ± 10 mm long, pubescent. Flowers rotate, white with orange midribs, immaculate, opening in afternoon, fragrance unknown; tepals pubescent at base and along abaxial midrib, outer elliptical, 10-12 x 2.0-2.5 mm, inner obovate. 10-12 x 4-5 mm. Stamens suberect; filaments filiform, tapering below, white, retrorsely scabrid in upper two thirds, outer ± 7 mm long, inner ± 6 mm long; anthers yellow, ± 2 mm long. Ovary ovoid, ± 2 mm long, sparsely scabrid, green, with 6 ovules per locule; style erect, filiform, ± 6.5 mm long, white. Capsule subglobose, 6-7 x 4-5mm, densely retrorsely scabridulous. Seeds tetrahedral, verrucose, black, ± 3 mm diam.