Wurmbea kraussii Baker

Corm oblong-ovoid to subglobose, 7-20 x 6-15 mm, tunics brown, forming a sheath around the firm underground neck, 10-80 mm long. Stem 30-150 mm long from the corm to the upper leaf, 3-5 mm in diam. Basal leaf solitary, usually erect, green, narrowly linear, 25-150 x 1.0-2.0 (-2.5) mm, margin involute to make leaf appear subterete; base narrow, sheathing. Cauline leaves 1 or 2, spathaceous; lower cauline leaf inserted three quarters up the stem; upper cauline leaves usually reaching the inflorescence, 10-30(-40) x (2.5-)3.0-7.0 mm, acuminate. Inflorescence spicate, 1-6(-10)-flowered, rachis 10-35 mm long with flowers spaced 3-8 mm apart. Perianth: 5-12 mm long; tepals 6, stellately spreading, with 3-7 veins running from the tip to the base; white to pink-mauve-purple, sometimes speckled with small rectangular flecks; tube campanulate, 0.7-1.5 (-2.0) mm long; lobes somewhat clawed basally 4-10 x 1.5-3.5 mm, oblong or elliptic-oblong to lanceolate-oblong, apically obtuse to subacute. Nectary distinctly raised, boat-shaped with an entire or shallowly bilobed obtuse free apex, 2-3 mm long, white or mauve-tipped or purplish-mauve. Filaments white to pink-mauve-purple, straight, 1.5-5.0 mm long. Anthers sometimes maroon in younger flowers, turning golden yellow in mature flowers, oblong, 0.7-1.8 x 0.5-1.0 mm. Pistil: ovary green basally, purplish-pink apically and with age, oblong, markedly 3-angled, 3-8 mm long; styles white or light purple to pink, conical, subulate, 2-4 mm long; stigmas suberect, small, capitate. Capsule elliptic-oblong, 3-angled, 7-13 mm long including styles, 3-5 mm broad, greenish-brown, with suberect or somewhat spreading subulate styles 2-4 mm long. Seeds numerous, subglobose, 0.9-1.2 mm long, light brown, with minutely reticulate-foveate surface. Flowering period: July to December, but mostly September to October.