Bobartia orientalis subsp. orientalis

Bobartia orientalis subsp. orientalis, in Afrikaans commonly known as the geelblombiesie (yellow flower rush), is an evergreen perennial growing from a rhizome. It produces a tuft of smooth, cylindrical leaves that are about erect, from 40 cm to 130 cm long. The fibrous leaves are tough and rush-like. The plant in picture has very few of them and at the time of the photo its leaves are mostly dry, but it still managed two flower stems. 

The star-shaped, yellow flowers of Bobartia orientalis may be seen from before midwinter to summer.

The species distribution is in the southern Cape parts of the Western Cape to the Eastern Cape to east of Makhanda. The photo was taken in the Kouga during May, after bloomtime.

The habitat is dry fynbos on stony, sandy slopes. The habitat population of the subspecies is deemed of least concern early in the twenty first century.

The leaves and maybe the stems of this plant are or were used in weaving baskets (Manning, 2007; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; Gledhill, 1981; iNaturalist; http://redlist.sanbi.org).