Afrosolen sandersonii (Baker) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning

Plants 200-350(-450) mm high. Corm 25-30 mm in diam., tunics dark brown, hard-leathery internally, decaying irregularly into vertical sections, seldom becoming fibrous and never netted. Stem divaricately and often intricately branched, compressed, 2-angled below, 3-angled above branches, slightly winged, sheathed below by dark brown cataphylls. Leaves 2 to 4, ± linear to falcate, 2-3 mm wide, firm to rigid, main and secondary vein pairs ± prominent, closely set; lowermost leaf longest, sometimes exceeding inflorescence, upper leaves progressively shorter. Inflorescence a rounded to ± flat-topped false panicle, but with main axis sometimes evident, ultimate branches 1-or 2(3)-flowered; bracts 5-12 mm long, green with brown tips in bud, often flushed purple, becoming dry and dark brown with age, acute-attenuate, inner sometimes longer than outer, usually notched at apex. Flowers zygomorphic, blue to violet, lower 3 tepals each with deep red to purple and white spear-shaped mark guide in lower midline; perianth tube 8-12 mm (subsp. limpopoensis), or mostly 15-30 mm (subsp. sandersonii), slender, widening slightly in upper 2-3 mm; tepals sub-equal, lanceolate, 10-11 x 2-4 mm, dorsal held apart from others, reflexed, lower 3 joined for ± 1 mm and held close together, when fully open all ± spreading. Filaments unilateral, ± erect, ± 5 mm long, exserted 2.5-3.5 mm from tube; anthers 3-5 mm long, purple; pollen pale yellow or white. Style dividing near apex of anthers or shortly (rarely much) exceeding anther tips; branches 1-2 mm long, divided for up to 1/3 their length, notched apically or undivided. Capsules depressed globose, 4-5 x 4-5 mm. Seeds nearly globose, ± 1.5-2.0 mm diam.

It is a subtropical plant.