Wachendorfia brachyandra W.F.Barker

Rhizomatous perennial herb, 0.10-0.65 m tall. Rhizome small, globose to ovate-oblong, 5-20 mm diameter. Leaves annual, erect or spreading, linear to lanceolate, often falcate, glabrous, dark green to yellow green, up to 700 x 35 mm. Culm about 3 mm in diameter, covered in short glandular hairs, seldom branched to form secondary peduncles; usually less than 0.4 m long. Inflorescence a lax panicle with 6-17 flowers per peduncle; peduncles and pedicels slender; peduncles short near tip of axis, a few much longer at the bottom (up to 0.2 m long). Bracts mostly scarious, oblong ovate acuminate, almost sheathing, not recurved lower down, up to 80 mm long; densely pilose. Tepals light apricot yellow, the markings dark, 12-20 x 4-14 mm; outer adaxial tepal smaller than the others, only slightly recurved; cilia seldom present on tepal edges. Stamens clustered, not spreading, half as long as tepals, 6-14 mm long; anthers 2.0-2.5 x 0.5-1.0 mm. Style: short, not much curved sideways, 7-12 mm long. Fruit a 3-lobed, dry capsule broader than long, 5 x 8-10 mm, carpels obtuse. Seeds spherical, coarsely hairy, 2 mm diameter.