Trachyandra hairy species

This very hairy Trachyandra plant was flowering in the Biedouw Valley during September. The big inflorescence is much-branched into a panicle of many straight racemes. At most one white flower per raceme was open at the time among the many small green buds.

There are several strap-shaped, narrow, hairy leaves tapering slowly to acutely pointed tips.

Neither T. hirsuta nor T. hirsutiflora expected to be hairy occurs as far north and their inflorescences are not as densely branched. There are others like T. jacquiniana with hairs but usually linear to terete-leaved (Manning, 2007; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist).