Ferraria ovata (Thunb.) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning

Plants often small, (40-)100-200 mm high. Stem erect, unbranched, lower half partly exposed. Leaves: basal and juvenile with short, linear blades, up to 45 x 2 mm; cauline entirely bifacial, broadly ovate to rotund, amplexicaul, 15-18 mm long, spreading, concave; margins membranous, often reddish. Rhipidia 2-flowered; spathes leafy, green, often brown at tips, inner 18-20 mm long, outer 12-20 mm long, sheathing in lower half, arching outward above. Flowers on pedicels 7-12 mm long, pale yellow with brown spots in midline and base of limbs, margins closely crisped, dark brown, acrid-smelling; tepal claws broad, 7-8 mm long, forming a cup ± 7 mm deep, ± 8 mm wide at rim, nectaries ± 2 mm long, above base of claws, ± 2 x 2 mm, paired or bilobed, greenish, tepal limbs spreading; outer tepals 17-20 mm long, limbs 8-12 mm long, inner slightly smaller than outer. Filaments united in a column 7-8 mm long, free in upper 1 mm; anther thecae parallel, ± 2 mm long; pollen orange. Ovary ellipsoid, ± 6 mm long, without beak, included; style branches ± 2 mm long, diverging into prominently fringed arms; stigmas terminal on style arms. Capsules ovoid (mature capsules and seeds unknown).