Cyanella ramosissima Engl. & K.Krause

Plants 80-200 mm high. Corms moderately or very deep-seated, 15-30 mm diam., tunics of coarsely netted, wiry fibres, extending shortly into a fibrous neck to 20 mm long, pale brown or grey. Basal leaves 4-6, spreading or suberect, linear to narrowly lanceolate, 50-150(-200) x 2-8 mm, acute to attenuate, plane, canaliculate or rarely involute, with prominent midrib and ribbed veins abaxially, firm-textured, glabrous, margins often ± undulate, usually ciliolate. Inflorescence a dense raceme up to 15(-20)-flowered, simple or 1-or 2-branched, lower flowers 0.2-0.5 times pedicel length apart; pedicels suberect but deflexed at bracteole, mostly 15-30 mm long; bracteoles mostly inserted in upper third or quarter. Flowers facing outwards, pale to deep pink or mauve with darker veins, fragrant; tepals spreading, outer elliptic, 13-20 x 3-4 mm, apiculate, inner oblanceolate, 13-20 x 4-7, narrowed below. Stamens dimorphic, 3 + 3; filaments of posterior cluster sometimes almost geniculate, 2.5-3.0(-4.0) mm long, swollen basally and connate into short tube up to 1 mm long, yellow, anthers ± sagittate, outer smaller, ± 1.5 mm long, median ± 2 mm long, yellow; filaments of anterior cluster deflexed, 2.0-2.5 mm long, shortly connate for up to 1 mm, anthers 4-5 mm long, yellow. Ovary half inferior, style medially deflexed, 10-15 mm long, almost twice as long as lower stamens. Capsules erect, subglobose-ovoid, 7-10 x 7 mm, 3-lobed. Seeds unknown.