Tulista minor (Aiton) Gideon F.sm. & Molteno

Plants acaulescent, with leaves in a basal rosette which is about 7 cm in diam., (not) or slowly proliferous. Leaves about 50, the young erect, the old ascending, somewhat spreading, incurved, about 7 cm long, 15 mm broad, up to 4 mm thick, ovate, triangular lanceolate, with a sharp pointed yellow-black tip; upper surface flat or slightly concave, tubercled in transverse rows with large rounded white pellucid tubercles; lower surface convex, tubercled, the tubercles arranged in irregular transverse bands of solitary spaced white pellucid tubercles; keel 1, centrally positioned from the apex to about the middle of the leaf, tubercled; margins acute, tubercled. Inflorescence about 49 cm tall; peduncle about 34 cm long, branched, about 2 mm diam., sterile bracts membranous, ovate, abruptly long acuminate, about 11 mm long, erect, keeled, subtending the branches; raceme about 15 cm long, with about 10 flowers and buds, 1 to 2 open simultaneously; floral bracts membranous, 3 mm long, keeled with brown veins, clasping the pedicels, (shorter than the pedicels); pedicels 5 mm long, 1.5 mm diam., brown, erect; perianth white with broad green keels to the segments, 11 mm long, compressed at base, funnel-shaped, tube more or less 4 mm across, constricted to 3 mm above; segments closely coherent, limb 2 lipped; posterior segments evenly disposed, spreading, little recurved, reddish-white with broad green veins; exterior part recurved, spreading, reddish-white with green veins, replicate; stamens 6 of two lengths 7 and 8 mm long, inserted within the perianth tube; ovary 3 mm long, 2 mm diam., green; style 2 mm long, not capitate.