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Bulb ovoid, up to 3.75 cm diam. Leaves 2, absent or contemporary with the flowers, linear, 30-45 cm long, 6-9 mm broad, green. Peduncle about equal in length to the leaves, 6-8 cm in diam. Spathe-valves 2, lanceolate, 7.5-9 cm long, green. Pedicels shorter than the spathe-valves. Flowers 10-15 in an umbel, occasionally less, nodding; perianth 3.75-5 cm long; tube curved, dilated gradually from the base to a throat 8-9 mm in diam.; lobe oblong, 6-9 mm long, connivent. Stamens biseriate; filaments short, not exserted. Style exserted; stigma tricuspidate. Flowering time: August to November, occasionally as late as March. Perianth red throughout.
Perennial geophyte, 0.30-0.45 m high. Leaves dry or occasionally green at flowering, linear, 6-9 mm wide, ± keeled. Flowers 4-15, nodding, ± 1-sided; perianth tubular, widening slightly to throat, 35-70 mm long, orange to red, occasionally green-tipped; stamens and style shortly exserted from throat; stigma 3-lobed. Flowering time (June) Sept.-Nov. (Apr.), after fire.
Bulbous herb, up to 450 mm high. Leaves 2; present or absent at flowering; blade linear, 300450 mm long. Flowers: in a 10-15-flowered umbel; nodding; perianth with tube curved, dilated gradually from base to throat, 30-40 mm long, lobes oblong, connivent, 6-9 mm long, tube red, lobes green; Sep.-Nov. Fruit a 3-valved capsule.
Bulbous herb, up to 450 mm high. Leaves 2; present or absent at flowering; blade linear, 300450 mm long. Flowers: in a 10-15-flowered umbel; nodding; perianth with tube curved, dilated gradually from base to throat, 30-40 mm long, lobes oblong, connivent, 6-9 mm long, red throughout; Sep.-Nov. Fruit a 3-valved capsule.
A herb. It has a bulb. The leaves are produced after the flowers. There are up to 8 flowers and they are turned to one side and nodding. The flowers are tubes 5 cm long. They are red.
Bulbous herb, up to 450 mm tall. Perianth 37-50 mm long, lobes 6-9 mm long, tube curved, dilated gradually from base to a throat 8-9 mm in diameter. Flowers red throughout.
