Similar to Drimia convallarioides, but separated by very short filaments, 0.3-0.5 mm vs 1-2 mm long.
Plants deciduous, solitary. Bulb subglobose to pyriform, 15-25 mm diam., scales adherent, becoming papery and greyish. Leaves ± 4, suberect or arcuate, terete, 30-50 x 1.0-1.5 mm, striate, glabrous firm-textured, sheathing bases translucent with obscure horizontal bars. Inflorescence a moderately dense to fairly lax raceme up to 250 mm tall, 6- to 15-flowered, flowers mostly 3-8 mm apart; scape straight or weakly flexuous, 0.5-1.0 mm diam., longitudinally scabrid-puberulous in basal half or higher; bracts ovate-deltoid, auriculate-denticulate, 1-2 mm long, spur to 1 mm long; pedicels suberect to spreading, 3-9 mm long at anthesis. Flowers diurnal, broadly campanulate to subrotate, weakly nodding; tepals connate for 1.0-1.5 mm, lobes elliptic-oblong, 4-5 x 1.5-2.5 mm, apices penicillate, whitish with darker midrib. Filaments curved inwards over ovary, 0.3-0.5 mm long, oblong, white. Anthers convergent, sub-basifixed, elliptic, 2.5 mm long, thecae acute apically, dehiscence through apical slits reaching just below middle of thecae. Ovary ovoid, ± 2 mm long, pale green; style columnar, 1.8 mm long, white; stigma trilete, smooth. Capsules and seeds unknown.
Bulbous geophyte, 12-24 cm. Leaves unknown. Flowers in racemes, nodding, dish-shaped, white with brown keels, anthers porose.
A poorly understood species known from two localities, one near Montagu and the other near Bonnievale in Western Cape.
