Cyrtanthus flavus P.E.Barnes

Bulb subglobose 0.5-1.3 cm in diam., produced into a neck about 1 cm long. Leaves 1-2, contemporary with the flowers, linear, 7-15 cm long, 1-1.5 mm broad. Peduncles 1-2 from each bulb, slender, 20-25 cm high, 2-3 mm in diam. Spathe-valves linear-lanceolate or linear-acuminate, about 2 cm long. Pedicels 1-2.5 cm long. Flowers usually 2-3, rarely up to 5 in an umbel, suberect, canary yellow; perianth 2 cm long; tube broadest at the middle; lobes slightly converging, 1/2 the length of the tube. Stamens biseriate, very short, well included. Style nearly as long as the perianth, trifid. Capsule globose or oval, 1-1.5 cm long.