Tritoniopsis unguicularis (Lam.) G.J.Lewis

Plants (200)300-600 mm high. Corm 25-35 mm diam.; tunics of densely matted fibres, with fibrous collar. Stem slender, curved outward at ground level, unbranched, 1.5-2.0 mm diam. Basal leaves 3 to 9, dry at flowering, blade linear to narrowly lanceolate, 90-250 x 1-7 mm, acuminate, 1-to 3-veined; cauline leaves 2 or 3, lowermost concealed among leaf bases, reddish brown, subulate, up to 60 mm long, clasping throughout, uppermost reduced to a minute scale. Spike densely 7-to 20-flowered, 30-100 mm long; bracts green at base but dry and brown above, leathery, ovate, outer 4-9 mm long, obtuse, inner slightly longer. Flowers zygomorphic, pale yellow or creamy white flushed pink, lower 3 often flushed purple toward bases or with small maroon median streak in basal 1/3, with a herbaceous or acrid fragrance; perianth tube funnel-shaped, 3-4 mm long; tepals subequal or dorsal slightly larger, suberect and recurved distally, upper laterals sometimes obliquely ascending, spathulate or oblong-spathulate, strongly narrowed or clawed in basal 1/2 or 1/3, obtuse or truncate, crispulate, dorsal 10-13 x 2.5-3.0 mm, others slightly shorter, lower 3 tepals joined for 1.5-2.0 mm. Filaments arcuate, later erect, (3-)4-7 mm long; anthers 3-5 mm long, yellow, with short apiculus 0.5 mm long. Style 8-9 mm long, dividing opposite anther bases, branches 1 mm long. Capsules inflated, ovoid or subglobose, 15-20 x 10-20 mm. Seeds up to 8 mm long, winged on angles.