Compilation
Bulbine latibracteata

Perennial herb 25–60(85) cm tall, glabrous, usually with 1–2 plants from a vertical or ± inclined woody rhizome. Rhizome 1–3 × 0.8–1 cm, small and hemispherical to subcylindrical; roots numerous spreading long, fleshy fusiform. Aerial stems absent. Leaves 3–10, erect, glaucous, sheathing at the base; the bases with broad hyaline margins and successively overlapping bases of inner leaves to form a short column; blade thickly fleshy, 15–40 cm long and 0.5–2 cm wide, linear to narrowly strap-shaped, ± obliquely rounded or acute at the apex and mucronate. Peduncle 1 per plant, erect, stoutly terete, 15–40 cm long, up to 6 mm diameter at the base. Raceme very densely many-flowered, c. 5 cm long and somewhat broadly conical at first before the uppermost buds have opened, becoming cylindrical as the pedicels lengthen and the buds open, increasing to c. 27 cm long in fruit; bracts white membranous, persistent, conspicuous, completely obscuring the buds in the young inflorescence, 7–25 mm long and up to 4 mm wide, narrowly ovate to lanceolate, ± boat-shaped, acuminate-subulate at the apex, auriculate; pedicels erect to ascending, slender, up to 3 cm long and stouter in fruit, straight, persistent. Tepals yellow, up to c. 7 mm long, the inner c. 3(4) mm wide, the outer 2.5(3.5) mm wide, persistent. Filaments c. 4–5 mm long, all densely bearded about the middle with long ± fine hairs; anthers 1.2–1.5 mm long. Style c. 3.5 mm long, terete. Capsule not inflated when mature, up to 8 mm long and 5.5 mm wide, obovoid, shallowly 3-lobed. Seeds 1–3 per locule, c. 2–3.5 mm long, pyramidal, narrowly winged on the angles, convex on the outer face with 2–3 flat inner faces tapering to the point of attachment, black, with a pattern of reticulate ridges on the surface.