Brunsvigia elandsmontana Snijman

Deciduous bulbous herb, 110-200 mm tall when flowering. Bulb solitary, hypogeal, ± ovate, 30-45 mm diam., extended into a stout neck 30-50 mm long; outer tunics tan-coloured and brittle; inner tunics cream-coloured and fleshy. Foliage leaves 4-6, usually absent at flowering, distichous, prostrate, overlapping at first becoming falcate and outspread when mature, elliptical, up to 1250 x 25-70 mm, adaxial surface dark green, somewhat rough, abaxial surface pale green with darker green veins, smooth, margin cartilaginous, pink, crisped, apex obtuse or somewhat acute. Inflorescence 6-18-flowered, initially compact, ultimately hemispherical, 80-130 mm diam., enlarging to 200 mm diam. in fruit; scape erect, elliptical in cross section, 50-140 x 5-10 mm, dull rose pink, breaking at ground level when dry; spathe valves 2, oblong-lanceolate, 20-35 x 8-20 mm, leathery, spreading, greenish pink; bracteoles at base of flowers linear, 20-35 mm long; pedicels straight, ± radiating, 20-45 mm long, elongating to 40-75 mm in fruit, greenish pink, turning pinkish when dry. Perigone actinomorphic, 17-23 x 20-30 mm, vivid rose-pink, throat usually concolorous with tepals, abaxial surface with paler midrib, unscented; tube 2-5 mm long, expanding slightly to 2-3 mm diam. at throat; tepals oblong-lanceolate, 15-20 x 5-7 mm, separate or slightly overlapping at base, outspread, sometimes somewhat recurved towards apex, margin plain or slightly undulate; stamens 6, centrally arranged, the inner almost as long as tepals, the outer somewhat shorter; filaments 10-16 mm long, pale and swollen at base, otherwise slender and pink, tightly clustered in lower third then slightly spreading and upturned towards apex; anthers dorsifixed, 4 mm long, dusky pink before opening; pollen cream-coloured. Ovary turbinate and 3-angled, 4-5 mm across, greenish pink; ovules axile, 5 or 6 per locule; style 20-25 mm long, slender, central, slightly upturned towards apex when mature; stigma trifid, papillate. Capsule inflated, turbinate, 10-25 x 10-15 mm, 3-angled with papery, transversally veined walls, the angles thinly ribbed, rounded near apex, loculicidally dehiscent in upper two thirds, pinkish to straw-coloured. Seeds non-dormant, greenish, ± 5 mm diam.