Tritoniopsis ramosa (eckl. ex Klatt) G.j.lewis

Plants 120-500 mm high. Corm 18-30 mm diam.; tunics of densely matted fibres, with short or long collar. Stem decurved at base then suberect or erect, simple or usually branched with up to 4 suberect or rarely divaricate branches, short to half as long as stem, slender or relatively robust. Basal leaves 3 to 6, green or dry at flowering, blade linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, 100-250 x 2-8(-12) mm, acuminate, narrowed and pseudopetiolate below, with 1 or 2(4) veins; cauline leaves 3 to 6, lower 1 to 3 subulate, upper 1 or 2 bract-like, brown. Spike laxly or moderately densely 4-to 18-flowered, 50-180 mm long, lateral spikes shorter, 1-to 8-flowered; bracts greenish at base, dry and brown above, soft-textured or leathery, oblong or ovate, outer 5-10 mm long, acute or obtuse or shortly apiculate, inner slightly longer. Flowers zygomorphic, pale to deep pink, lower 3 tepals with red median streak flanked by white streaks, unscented; perianth tube narrowly funnel-shaped, 7-15(-20) mm long; tepals unequal, dorsal larger, arched over stamens, oblanceolate-spathulate, clawed in lower 2/3, 20-28 x (3-)4-6 mm, obtuse or emarginate, other tepals recurved in distal 1/3, 20-25 x 3-5 mm, upper laterals joined to lower laterals for ± 1 mm and lower 3 joined at base for 5-7 mm. Filaments arcuate, later recurved, 15-18 mm long; anthers 5-7 mm long, pink or lilac, with acuminate, recurved apiculus 1.0-1.5 mm long. Style 24-28 mm long, dividing opposite upper half or beyond anthers, branches 3-4 mm long. Capsules ellipsoid to obovoid, slightly inflated, (6-)8-12(-15) x 8-10 mm, pale or greenish with dark bands along the sutures. Seeds tetrahedral, 3-4 mm long, narrowly winged on angles.