Haemanthus montanus Baker

Bulb solitary or in clumps, ovoid to pyriform, circular or somewhat medianly compressed in cross section, up to 80 mm across; tunics more or less equal, with horizontal or slightly oblique margins, cream-coloured, the outer parts sometimes dark brown and papery. Leaves 2, occasionally 3, erect, appearing at the time of flowering, rarely a little later; blade narrowly to broadly lorate, 150-250 mm long, 15-50 mm broad near the middle, flat or sometimes twisted; both surfaces green or glaucous, without markings, or sometimes flushed with red towards the base, glabrous; margin smooth, sometimes raised or opaque; apex obtuse to acute. Peduncle up to 400 mm long, 7-12 mm across greatest diam., green to reddish, glabrous. Umbel obconical to hemispherical, 40-90 mm across. Spathe valves 5-8, spreading and soon becoming reflexed, shorter or longer than the flowers, triangular to lanceolate, 25-40 mm long, 4-13 mm wide at the base, pale pink, membranous; tips acute. Flowers 30-70 or sometimes more, white, sometimes with a pink blush when old. Pedicels 7-20 mm long, green. Perianth 10-14 mm long; tube 1-2 mm long, somewhat funnel-shaped; segments spreading, lanceolate, 9-13 mm long, 1-2 mm wide; tips acute. Filaments slightly exserted, at most by 3 mm, white. Anthers 1.5-3 mm long when open, yellow. Ovary subglobose, approximately 2 mm diam. Style equalling the filaments. Berries not recorded.