Tritoniopsis parviflora (Jacq.) G.J.Lewis

Plants 150-400 mm high. Corm 20-30 mm diam.; tunics of densely matted brown fibres, with well-developed collar. Stem moderately slender, curved outward at ground level and then erect, unbranched, 1.5-3.0 mm diam. Basal leaves 5 to 7, green at flowering or drying, blade linear, acuminate, with 1(2) veins, 80-220 x 2-5 mm, contracted into semiterete pseudopetiole usually, extending shortly above ground; cauline leaves 2 or 3, lowermost concealed by tunic fibres, subulate, upper 1 or 2 minute and scale-like. Spike densely 8-to 22-flowered, 30-120 mm long; bracts green at base but dry and brown above, leathery, ovate to oblong, outer 5-8 mm long, obtuse or acute, inner slightly longer. Flowers zygomorphic, yellow with tube and three lower tepals flushed maroon or purple in basal half and with the apex yellow but soon turning brown, strongly acrid or musty scented; perianth tube 3-4 mm long; tepals unequal, dorsal larger, arching over stamens and recurved apically, crisped or undulate, base of lower tepals and mouth of tube minutely papillate, dorsal tepal spathulate-oblanceolate, 14-17 x (3-)4-6 mm, obtuse, clawed in basal half, upper laterals oblanceolate-to obovate-spathulate, 10-14 x (2-)3-5 mm, obtuse, strongly clawed in basal half, connate with lower tepals for up to 1 mm and then curved back and up toward dorsal, three lower tepals fused to one another for 3-4 mm forming a lip, oblong-spathulate or panduriform, 10-13 x 3-4 mm, truncate, with short claws 2-3 mm long. Filaments arcuate, later diverging, 12-14 mm long, base of median filament minutely papillate; anthers yellow, 3-4 mm long with short or obsolete apiculus up to 0.5 mm long. Style ± 15 mm long, dividing opposite anther bases, branches ± 1 mm long. Capsules much inflated, ovoid to subglobose, 24-34 x 15-25 mm. Seeds 9-10 mm long, winged on angles.