Brunsvigia radula W.T.Aiton

Deciduous bulbous herb, 50-80 mm tall when flowering. Bulb solitary, hypogeal, ± ovoid, 30-35 x 30-35 mm, sometimes extended into a neck up to 30 x 15 mm, inner tunics fleshy to papery, cream-coloured, outer tunics brittle, tan-coloured. Leaves 2, absent at flowering, prostrate, opposite, elliptical, 30-45 x 15-35 mm, rarely up to 55 mm long in cultivation, shiny green, thick-textured, adaxial surface covered with pustules, each bearing a short, hard, apically curved bristle, abaxial surface smooth, margin horny, fringed with short, hard bristles. Inflorescence 3-8-flowered, loosely spreading at anthesis, 50-70 mm diam., enlarging slightly in fruit; scape erect, up to 60 mm long, compressed-elliptical in transverse section, ±5-8 mm diam., brownish pink; spathe valves 2, oblong-lanceolate, ±20 x 9 mm, membranous, delicate pink, soon reflexed; bracteoles filiform; pedicels straight or sometimes slightly geniculate immediately below ovary, 15-25 x 1-2 mm, trigonous, brownish pink. Perigone zygomorphic, rose-pink, pale greenish cream in throat; tube up to 1 mm long; tepals all flared upwards above horizontal plane, or 1 spreading slightly downward and widely separated from others, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 18-22 x 3-4 mm, margin plane or slightly undulate; stamens of various lengths, ± as long as to 7 mm longer than tepals, spreading horizontally or deflexed to ±30° below horizontal plane at anthesis, upturned distally; filaments shortly fused for ± 1.5 mm at base, remaining tightly clustered in lower half, without appendages near base, white to pale pink; anthers oblong, ±3.5 mm long before dehiscence, maroon; pollen cream-coloured. Ovary ±3-angled, ±2-4 mm diam., brownish pink, with 3 or 4 ovules per locule; style slender, included in stamen cluster for ± half its length, upturned in distal quarter, exserted up to 5 mm beyond stamens, white to pale pink; stigma shortly trifid, papillate. Capsule cordiform, ±8-10 mm diam., septa not ribbed, dehiscing for at least three quarters below apex, walls ± papery, ± translucent, with a few cross-veins. Seeds subglobose, ±3 mm diam., fleshy.