Ferraria densepunctulata M.p.de Vos

Plants slender, mostly 120-250 mm high. Stem few-branched in upper half, lower half of stem partly visible; leaf sheaths and cataphylls often flushed red with pale spotting. Leaves: basal with long compressed-cylindric blades, loosely 2-ranked, 3-5 mm wide, margins hyaline to reddish; cauline shorter, spreading outward, tips often hooked; juvenile leaves up to 6 in 2-ranked cluster, terete, hollow, dark green. Rhipidia 2-flowered; spathes green with narrow membranous margins pale or flushed red; inner 40-50 mm long, outer ± 25 mm long, sheathing below, diverging and hooked distally. Flowers on pedicels slightly shorter to ± as long as spathes; pale greenish to grey-blue, outer tepals densely speckled with small maroon to purple or dark blue spots, inner tepal limbs maroon to purple or dark blue blotch in lower half, faintly spice-scented, tepal claws forming a shallow cup, ± 9 mm deep, 15-20 mm wide at rim; nectaries bilobed, above base of outer tepal claws, in midline of inner tepal claws, tepal limbs spreading horizontally, undulate or only slightly crisped; outer tepals 25-30 x 11-13 mm, inner tepals 20-23 x ± 10 mm, claws of both whorls ± 10 mm long, inner narrower than outer. Filaments united in a column 8-10 mm long, free in upper ± 2 mm; anther thecae parallel, ± 4 mm long before anthesis; pollen orange or dull yellow. Ovary ellipsoid, without beak but sterile in upper 3-4 mm, sometimes exserted, 12-15 mm long; style ± 10 mm long, style branches ± 3 mm long, divided in upper 1/3 into diverging, fringed arms; stigmas terminal on style arms. Capsules ovoid, 15-25 mm long, apex subacute. Seeds pale, glossy brown, ± 3 mm diam., 5-sided, lightly wrinkled.