Tufted perennial to c. 50 cm high, with a thickened rootstock. Roots thick, fleshy. Leaves erect, apically terete, usually glaucous, to 30 cm long, 2–10 mm wide. Inflorescences usually 2–several, per plant; scape 2–6 mm diam. at base; flowers yellow; perianth segments 9–17 mm long; stamens shorter than the perianth segments, anthers yellow, arching more or less horizontally after dehiscence; filaments all bearded with clavate hairs shortly below the anthers; capsule globose or obovoid, 4–6 mm long; seeds ridged or tuberculate, 2.2–3 mm long. Flowers spring–summer.
VVP, VRiv, GipP, EGL, WPro, HSF, HNF, VAlp. Also NSW, ACT, Tas. Occurs chiefly on rock, and known in Victoria from a few sites (Organ Pipes near Keilor, Seaspray, Pine Mountain, Warby Range, Mt Buller, Buchan district).
Source:
Conran, J.G.; Walsh, N.G. (1994). Bulbine. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 667–670. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
