The cream-white flowers are distinctively fragrant (unlike those of the similar Bulbinella cauda-felis).

They appear in September and October, on a thin, cylindrical, apically pointed raceme.

It is endemic to the southern parts of the Western Cape Province, South Africa.

It naturally occurs in the regions of Caledon, Bredasdorp, Potberg, Swellendam and Riversdale.

Its preferred habitat is flat or gently sloping terrain, often of rocky shale or clay, in renosterveld vegetation.