Tricoryne elatior R.Br.

Flowering axis to 1 m high, terete, slightly striate, glabrous, sometimes with scabrous hairs at base; branches usually dichotomous. Leaves linear, 5-10 cm long, 2-3.5 mm wide, usually glabrous, reduced and scale-like on upper branches. Umbels 2-10-flowered, rarely more than 20; bracts scarious, deltoid or few outer subulate, 3-8 mm long, 1-2 mm wide; pedicels 2.5-6 mm long. Sepals oblong, acute, 6-14 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, 3-nerved. Petals elliptic, obtuse, 5.5-9.5 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, 3-nerved. Filaments 3-5 mm long; anthers ovate, 0.6-0.9 mm long. Mericarps ellipsoidal, 4-6 mm long, 2-3.5 mm diam.; umbo absent; pericarp slightly reticulated.

Grows in sand, loam and lateritic soil in heath and open forest and woodland, sometimes in swamps.