Clivia caulescens R.A.Dyer

Stems sometimes branched from the base up to about 45 cm tall, 3.5-4 cm diameter, becoming leafless below with age and transversely ringed by leaf-scars at intervals of 0.5-1.2 cm distance, with a tuft of about 15 leaves at the apex. Leaves dark green, lorate, distichous, but the blades spreading somewhat spirally, usually about 30-40 cm long and 3 cm broad, but may be up to 90 cm long and 5 cm broad, widening very gradually from the base for about 2/3 its length and thence narrowed gradually to the apex, ultimately withering and falling. Peduncle compressed, sharply 2-edged, unequally convex on the surfaces, about 30 cm long, 1.5 cm broad at the base, narrowed to 1 cm under the umbel. Spathe-valves 4, membranous, unequal, more or less lanceolate, 4 cm long. Umbel about 15-20-flowered. Pedicels 1.5-3.5 cm long. Perianth deep salmon, with the lobes green tipped with yellow on the overlapped margins, 3.5 cm long, with a tube 4-5 mm long and lobes slightly spreading at the tips; the outer lobes elliptic to spathulate-oblong, 7 mm broad; the inner lobes 1-1.2 cm broad. Stamens about equalling the perianth-lobes in length, inserted at the throat of the perianth-tube and the base of the filaments projecting over the mouth of the tube and fitting closely round the style. Ovary about 5 mm long; style extending about the same distance as the anthers.