Walleria gracilis (Salisb.) S.Carter

Deciduous geophyte 100-700 mm high. Corm subglobose or depressed-globose, 20-30 mm diam. Stem straggling or climbing, well branched, with recurved prickles 1.0-1.5 mm long in upper parts. Leaves lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, (30-)70-120 ( 5-10 mm, upper narrower and attenuate-cirrhose, apex coiling and tendril-like, amplexicaul, midrib with recurved prickles beneath. Flowers solitary in axils in central portion of stem, nodding, rose-scented; pedicels arcuate, 20-40 mm long, sparsely prickly, with lanceolate bracteole 6-10 mm long inserted ± midway. Tepals white with purple blotch at base, recurved or reflexed, lanceolate, 10-16 ( 2.5-3.5 mm. Stamens connivent, connate at tips, filaments 0.5-1 mm long, anthers 5-6 mm long, yellow in lower 1/2 and purple above with grey tips, slits short, subapical, introrse. Ovary subglobose-pyramidal, 3-lobed above, ± 2 mm long; style 4 mm long. Capsule ovoid, shortly apiculate and 3-lobed above, ± 15 mm long. Seeds ovoid, ± 5 mm long, dark mahogany-brown, with conspicuous apical cluster of sausage-shaped papillae, each topped with tuft of minute trichomes, rest of seed ± smooth but covered with trichome-tufts.