Haemanthus dasyphyllus Snijman

Bulbs clumped, elongate-ovoid, round or more or less laterally compressed, 45-60 mm diam.; tunics imbricate, distichous, with oblique margins, cream-coloured, mostly covered with light brown papery remains. Leaves 2, occasionally 1, erect, appearing after the inflorescence; blade narrowly to broadly lanceolate, 190-330 mm long, 26-70 mm broad at the middle, mostly twisted, sometimes channelled; both surfaces light green with a few red bars at the base of the abaxial surface, mostly covered with long soft white hairs, sometimes on the abaxial surface or margins only; apex subacute. Peduncle 30-230 mm long, 4-10 mm across greatest diam., light red or cream with darker red speckling, softly pilose or glabrous. Umbel compact, narrowly obconical to oblong, 25-50 mm across. Spathe valves 5-6, erect, shorter or as long as the flowers, oblong-lanceolate, 30-45 mm long, 5-20 mm wide, firm, coral to scarlet; tips obtuse or subacute. Flowers 20-50, coral to scarlet, white below and on the tips. Pedicels 4-15 mm long, whitish. Perianth 14-25 mm long; tube 3-7 mm long, swollen below each segment; segments erect, oblong to narrowly spathulate, 11-20 mm long, 1 mm wide; tips obtuse. Filaments exserted by up to 10 mm, reddish, tipped with white. Anthers 2 mm long when open, yellow. Style about as long as the filaments. Ovary more or less subglobose, about 2 mm diam., light green. Berries more or less ovoid, about 8-12 mm diam., flushed with deep to pale pink. Seeds more or less ovoid, 6-8 mm across, turning dark wine-coloured.