Brunsvigia radulosa Herb.

Underground, with short neck, up to 10 cm tall and 6-10 cm in diam. with a hard cartilaginous tunic and sometimes (plants from Karoo) with linear cartilaginous bristle-like strips persisting on the sides of the neck. Leaves 4-6, absent or present at time of flowering (depending on environment) spreading on ground, developing up to 25-50 cm long and 10-20 cm broad, thick and tough, with asperities on upper or both surfaces, very rarely smooth, margin scabrous. Peduncle red-brown or green with pink tinge, compressed, 30-50 cm tall, 2.5-3.5 cm broad. Spathe-valves ovate-lanceolate or ovate, 5-7 cm long. Umbel 30-60-flowered. Pedicels reddish-green or reddish-brown, somewhat glacous, 20-30 cm long, 6-10 mm thick near the base, tapered above, obscurely 3-angled or slightly 6-ribbed. Perianth red or pink, fairly regular in shape, 4.5-5.5. cm long, with tube 2.5-5 mm long; lobes oblong-lanceolate, 1-1.5 cm broad. Stamens declinate about equal to perianth in length; the filaments attached in the throat of the perianth tube, slightly shouldered towards base; anthers 1-1.2 cm long. Style becoming slightly longer than the stamens. Ovary acutely 3-angled, 1.5-4 cm long, 1-1.75 cm broad; capsule up to about 4 cm broad.