Cyrtanthus debilis Snijman

Deciduous bulbous herb, 8-22 mm tall when flowering. Bulbs solitary, hypogeal, ovate to ellipsoidal, up to 20-30 mm long, 10-25 mm diam., with a slender neck up to 20 mm long; outer tunics brown and papery; inner tunics cream-coloured and fleshy. Leaves (2)3-5, linear, hysteranthous, sometimes 1 emerging at flowering, 7-180 x 1-2 mm, suberect to spreading, glabrous, three-angled in cross section with 1 median vein, dark green but reddish proximally. Inflorescence 1-2(-4)-flowered; scape erect, 35-140 x 2-4 mm, tapering distally, brownish green without a grey bloom, hollow; spathe valves 2, equitant, narrowly lanceolate, erect, 25-35 x 3-5 mm, maroon-pink, margins inrolled; bracteoles up to 4, filiform, up to 23 mm long; pedicels erect, 7-20 x 1 mm, brownish green. Flowers slightly spreading, 35-70 mm long, trumpet-shaped, rose-pink with darker pink on perigone tube, tepal sinuses in throat and median bands on tepals, unscented; tube slightly curved in proximal half, 18-48 mm long, 2 mm diam. at base, widening gradually and evenly to 8-15 mm at throat; tepals oblong-lanceolate, 18-30 x 6-10 mm, spreading regularly, usually 5-veined; outer whorl prominently mucronate, as wide or slightly wider than the inner; margins sometimes slightly undulate. Stamens biseriate, tightly clustered together against lower tepals; filaments 15-30 mm long, inserted ± midway up tube, upturned apically, white, outer whorl inserted 2-3 mm below the inner, inner whorl extended beyond the outer by up to 10 mm; anthers dorsifixed, ± 2 mm long, yellow. Ovary ellipsoidal, 5-8 x 2-4 mm, greenish; ovules axile, ± 16 per locule. Style clustered with stamens, extended beyond inner stamens by ± 5 mm; upturned apically, white; stigma 3-branched, up to 1.5 mm long, penicillate apically. Capsule narrowly ellipsoidal, 10-20 x 5-9 mm, 3-valved. Seeds black, flattened, irregularly angled, 5-6 x 3-1 mm.