Haemanthus crispus Snijman

Bulbs mostly forming clumps or occasionally solitary, obclavate to globose, round in cross section or slightly compressed in the median plane, up to 60 mm diam.; tunics unequal, in overlapping horizontal layers, cream-coloured, the outer parts brown and papery. Leaves 2, occasionally 1 or 3, suberect or recurved, appearing shortly after the inflorescence; blade lorate, 110-200(-350) mm long, 7-20(-33) mm wide, canaliculate; both surfaces green or glaucous, sparsely to densely covered with short, stiff hairs or entirely glabrous, abaxial surface with dark green and maroon blotches, somewhat ribbed towards the base; margins sinuate to undulate throughout, or towards the base only, rarely entirely flattened, usually outlined with red; apex acute. Peduncle up to 150 mm long, 3.5-12 mm across greatest diam., red, immaculate or with darker red mottling, sometimes pale to deep pink, glabrous. Umbel compact, obovoid to obconical, 15-40 mm wide above. Spathe valves 4-5(-6), erect, equalling the flowers or sometimes slightly longer, broadly to narrowly obtrullate or spathulate, 22-40 mm long, (6-)13-35 mm broad above the middle, coral to scarlet or pink, waxy; tips mostly obtuse and mucronate, occasionally acute. Flowers 6-25, coral to scarlet or sometimes pink, whitish at the base and tips. Pedicels 0.5-4(-7) mm long, pale scarlet or pink. Perianth 15-26 mm long; tube 1.5-9 mm long, gibbose at the base of each segment; segments erect, linear to narrowly spathulate, 12-20 mm long, 0.75-2 mm wide; tips obtuse. Filaments exserted by up to 10 mm, whitish to pale scarlet or pink. Anthers 1-2 mm long when open, yellow. Ovary subglobose, 2-4 mm diam., green to rosy. Style slightly exceeding the stamens. Berries spherical, 13-20 mm diam., pale pink and pulpy when ripe, tightly clustered together. Seeds 1-4, globose, up to 10 mm diam., dark wine-red.