Compilation
Bulbine xanthobotrys

Tufted perennial herb, 10–66 cm tall, glabrous, with 1–4 plants from a small woody vertical rhizome; rhizome 6–15 × 5–10 mm, shortly cylindrical to ± shallowly obconic-hemispherical; roots numerous spreading long, fibrous to fleshy fusiform. Aerial stems absent. Leaves 5–numerous, erect to arching, fleshy grass-like, broadly winged and sheathing at the base, successively enfolding the bases of inner leaves and peduncle; blade up to 60 cm long and 2–6 mm wide, subterete or narrowly linear to very narrowly strap-shaped at least when dry, tapering to the apex; bases forming a column up to c. 8 cm long and 5–10 mm wide surrounding the peduncle base, outer leaf bases sometimes breaking down into a persistent fibrous sheath; wings clasping, hyaline, up to 8 mm wide on each side of the blade, tapering upwards into the blade. Peduncle usually 1, ascending-erect, terete, ± fleshy becoming stoutly rigid, 10–50 cm long and 2–5 mm in diameter. Raceme mostly densely many-flowered, ± cylindrical, increasing from 4 to 25 cm long in fruit; bracts persistent, with broad hyaline margins, c. 12 × 3–6 mm, lanceolate, ± auriculate; pedicels ± closely spaced, slender ascending-patent, mostly 8–25 mm long after anthesis, straight, persistent, becoming ± downcurved and more robust in the fruiting inflorescence. Tepals yellow or yellow-green, ± persistent, up to 4.5–7 × 2–2.5 mm, oblong-cucullate, with a pronounced green midrib. Filaments 2–3 mm long, densely bearded in the upper part with long yellow hairs; anthers 1.5–2 mm long. Capsule not inflated when mature, stipitate, 4.5–6 mm long including a c. 1 mm long stalk, 3.5–5 mm wide, subglobose. Seeds pyramidal, sharply angled, black when mature.