Trachyandra paniculata Oberm.

Plants up to 30 cm high. Roots many, short, bulbous. Rhizome small. Squamae thin, loose, membranous. Leaves 3-4, linear-lanceolate, up to 20 cm long, 1 cm broad, flat, straight or wavy, glabrous above, pubescent below, margin slightly raised, sparsely fimbriate, tapered to the apex. Inflorescence a divaricate raceme with accessory branches in many of the axils, many flowered, overtopping the leaves; scape with a slight curve, about as long as the panicle, pubescent below; bracts small, ovate, apiculate, auriculate; pedicels erecto-patent, ca. 1 cm long in fruit. Flowers with a white, maculate perianth, segments 8 mm long; filaments papillate; ovary with 10 ovules per cell. Capsule globose ca. 4 mm in diam. Seeds not seen.