Wurmbea glassii (C.H.Wright) J.C.Manning & Vinn.

Small geophyte, 20-60 mm high. Corms asymmetrical, obovoid; roots emerging fan-wise. Shoot with basal neck covered by sheaths, simple above. Leaves 3, basal one sheathing, spreading, linear, second leaf smaller, opposite, and third leaf bract-like below lowest flower of cyme. Inflorescence an ebracteate cyme. Flowers 3, yellow. Perianth: segments narrowly linear-ovate, aristate, auriculate above claw, persistent, reflexed in fruit. Stamens arising on claw, short, dorsifixed, introrse. Ovary ovoid; ovules several; styles 3, long, arising laterally on truncate ovary lobes; stigmas apical, minute. Flowering time May, June. Fruit a trigonous capsule, with apical flat part of locules diverging in fruit, bearing persistent incurved, pointed style bases on outside. Seeds globose, lenticular.