Xerophyta pauciramosa (L.B.Sm. & Ayensu) Behnke

Stem up to 50 cm high with branches about 1 cm in diameter, the young ones with exserted grey-brown leaf sheaths that are distinct by their broad yellow-brown apical parts. Leaf blades up to 15 cm long and 8 mm wide, V-shaped with median adaxial groove, deciduous, linear and acute, on both sides glabrous. Flowers solitary, fragrant, often with three pedicels on terminal peduncle, pedicel in upper part covered with eglandular emergences. Tepals about 25 mm long, white or pink to lilac, the outer lanceolate acute. Stamens with 10-12-mm-long yellow anthers and short filament. Style about 2 mm, stigma 5 mm long. Ovary 8 mm long and 4 mm in diameter, densely covered with short emergences.